28 May
2010
28 May
'10
4:32 a.m.
From Ryan Manikowski Sent: May 27, 2010 18:42
When you say the 'system' no longer recognizes the tape drive, are you sure the SCSI controller even detects the tape drive during boot? From what I've seen, tape drives use the generic tape driver and get mapped to /dev/stX.
I know that it will recognize it on a reboot however I did not want to wait until a reboot was convenient. I was looking for a way to add the drive without having to do a reboot. Brian's suggestion has worked and I am now using the tape drive without having to do a reboot.
Regards, Hugh
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Hugh E Cruickshank, Forward Software, www.forward-software.com