On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 at 4:16pm, Brian Cuttler wrote

> There is nothing in /var/log/messages (no scsi messages), however we find
> the following in messages.1, which seems to show that all is well and that
> the tape and robot are found and the drivers loaded.
>
> Is there some intermediate makedev command that should have but didn't
> run when it was expected to ?

The whole problem is that the drivers *aren't* loaded now.  If you just 
'modprobe aic7xxx' then all should be well.  I'm just not sure why they 
seem to have been loaded upon boot, but aren't loaded now.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University