no tape device detected with debian 9.1

[stefangweichinger]

sorry if I am wrong here, just trying to find a solution:

I have a Fujitsu TX1330M3 server with Debian stretch on it and plugged in a SAS controller card to control a HP Ultrium LTO3 drive:

02:00.0 RAID bus controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic MegaRAID SAS 2008 [Falcon] (rev 03)

This card works fine with gentoo linux, it uses the megaraid_sas kernel module and in gentoo I automatically get the according tape device files (/dev/st0, /dev/nst0, etc). The card and the drive work fine there (doing backups etc).

In debian: no tape device files! module "st" doesn't get loaded, if I do manually, no device files either

#dmesg megaraid_sas 0000:02:00.0: Failed to init firmware

Do I miss some firmware files here? Do I have to install some specific packages from your repo?

pls advise how to debug that issue, thanks!

I also started a thread on the amanda-users-ml: https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg49305.html