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How are the tape drives connected (scsi, ide, usb??), and were they connected when the server was last started?
You can look in dmesg to see if there is any mention (if the machine has been up for a while the output may be quite long, pipe it through less). If there is this should give you a clue as to what modules are needed, but the udev system should have auto loaded them if the hardware was recognised.