>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 -- Hugh E Cruickshank, Forward Software, www.forward-software.com