Amanda-Users

Re: AMANDA reports no slots, but there ARE slots!

2007-03-08 15:41:17
Subject: Re: AMANDA reports no slots, but there ARE slots!
From: "Stefan G. Weichinger" <sgw AT amanda DOT org>
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 21:35:07 +0100
FL schrieb:

> Maybe I can add to it -- when I have a break.  

Yeah ;) I know that definition of a date.

> I've just
> gone through the same exercise on a CentOS 4 system (I intend to upgrade
> it to RHEL 4); on that system it was necessary to run modprobe sg to see
> the devices, and the udev syntax (which I believe is the same as Fedora
> Core). Perhaps the need to run modprobe is a bug. 

[...]

> Though it is still necessary to run modprobe sg

Well, I don't see the problem with this.

If sg-support isn't compiled into the kernel, but compiled as a module,
that module has to be loaded to be able to access the devices it supports.

Do I misunderstand something here?

Stefan