amr(4) in 6.1-RELEASE-p3 ignores my tape drive

[Scott Long]

clinth wrote:

>>Hi All,
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> 
>>This morning I upgraded a Dell PowerEdge 2850 from 6.0-RELEASE to 
>>6.1-RELEASE and found that amr(4) no longer detects my Seagate DAT via 
>>sa(4).
> 
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>>The system has an embedded Dell PERC 4e/Di with two channels.  Channel 0 
>>contains two disks in RAID 1 and works fine.  Channel 1 has only the DAT 
>>at ID 6 but it is no longer detected.  Possibly related to this, ses0 
>>also shows up with the 6.0 kernel but not under 6.1.
> 
> 
>>The diffs for amr show that a ton of (excellent) work has been done 
>>between 6.0 and 6.1 so I have no idea where to even begin looking for a 
>>solution.  Any help is most appreciated.
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> 
>>Regards,
>>RJ
> 
> 
> I am having the same issues as RJ.  Has there been a resloution to this
> issue as I'm unable to find one?
> The system is the same as above with a new install of 6.1-RELEASE-p3.  Any
> help is very appreciated.
> 
> Clint
>

It's my fault.  I was hoping that the SCSI-passthrough mis-feature would
not be missed, but I forgot that Dell was making systems that 
explicitely encourage it.  Fixing the driver is non-trivial, but I'll 
see what I can do before 6.2.  Until then, you should be able to 
transplant the 6.0 sources into your 6.1 trees and rebuild.

Scott