[CentOS] Replacement tape drive configuration

[Brian Mathis]

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 6:14 PM, Hugh E Cruickshank <hugh at forsoft.com> wrote:
> CentOS 4.8
>
> Hi All:
>
> We recently had a Sony SDX-500V tape drive fail on one of our servers
> running CentOS 4.8. I have now replaced it with a spare SDX-500C. The
> problem that I am having now is that the failed drive had ceased
> responding to SCSI commands and we have since rebooted the system
> which resulted in the tape drive being removed from our current
> hardware configuration and the system does not recognize the new
> tape drive.
>
> I know that I can just reboot the system and kudzu will add the tape
> drive back in during the boot process however I was wondering if it
> would be possible to manually run kudzu to add the drive or am I just
> "borrowing trouble" by trying to do this?
>
> TIA
>
> Regards, Hugh


You could try to rescan the SCSI bus:
    http://jeff.blogs.ocjtech.us/2008/05/how-to-re-scan-scsi-bus-on-linux.html

More info:
    http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-3942