Adding new tape drives

dshakey · February 18, 2011, 6:40am

hi,
i am using Solaris 8 on a sparc box and already have 4 tape drives in a backup libaray attached to my unix server. we have recently added 2 new tape drives to the libaray and now want to get unix to see them. have it working in windows.

how do i scan for new hardware and add theses new tape drives.
does it require a reboot? cause that not happening

any help will be great

faberarnold · February 18, 2011, 7:14am

Hi dshakey,

As root, that:
1)tell the server to check new device
#devfsadm

2)list all devices connected.
#cfgadm -al

dshakey · February 18, 2011, 7:23am

thanks,
i tried that, but no avail

unixdev2# devfsadm
unixdev2#  cfgadm -al
Ap_Id                          Type         Receptacle   Occupant     Condition
c1                             scsi-bus     connected    configured   unknown
c1::dsk/c1t0d0                 CD-ROM       connected    configured   unknown
unixdev2#

any other way to force the drives to show?

bluescreen · February 18, 2011, 8:49am

I hate to suggest the windoze approach, but maybe a reconfiguration reboot would do the trick. :o

HTH

faberarnold · February 18, 2011, 9:57am

dshakey,

Try a reconfiguration reboot if possible.

jlliagre · February 18, 2011, 10:24am

Instead of rebooting, you might just need to reload the st driver for it to reload its configuration.

Identify the driver with modlist then unload it, assuming you aren't accessing a tape, with modunload. After the next tape access, all drives should show up.