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