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Configuring a tape drive in Solaris 8

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systemsadmin3000

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Sep 8, 2005
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I have a SUN STOREDGE L8 tape library that I attached via SCSI to a SUN server running solaris 8. How do I configure solaris to recognise this tape library? Not really experienced with solaris/unix.
 
Two methods-

1) Issue the following commands (as root)- may not work, but avoids a reboot-
# drvconfig
# devlinks
# tapes

2) Do a reconfiguration reboot of the system-
# reboot -- -r OR
# touch /reconfigure; reboot

I would suggest looking at upgrading the system off of Solaris 8, as that OS release went intop the limited support model as of last April.
 
Method 1 worked. Thanks a mil.

This server is used for a test environment that's why we still have it a solaris 8 but eventually we would upgrade. Thanks again.
 
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