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Bernhard Erdmann wanted us to know:

>>I have been trying to do a complete restore on a Red Hat box for some time
>>now.  I haven't been able to figure out a way to access my SCSI tape drive
>>from Red Hat rescue mode.  Perhaps I'm missing something? 
>No, just RedHat did miss to include the st (SCSI tape) driver. I've been 
>bitten, too.

If you don't want to mess with compiling your own kernel you have a
couple of options:
1) install an older RedHat kernel, reboot into that.
2) install a Mandrake kernel, reboot into that.

The only requirement is that the st driver be present (and you make an
initrd if you have scsi devices).
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Blue skies...   Todd    Public key: http://www.mrball.net/todd.asc
The question is for how long that network would be around before it falls 
due to the same problem (dclue/dt < 0 on the part of those who run it)
                                                     --Alex on NANOG
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