[CentOS] Replacement tape drive configuration

Hugh E Cruickshank hugh at forsoft.com
Fri May 28 02:32:17 UTC 2010


>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 



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