Mount Tape Drive

[cocopud]

I have an external tape drive that I need to connect to a Sun system. It used to be connected, but no longer was. I connected it, shutdown the system and brought it back up, but I do not see the device. What do I need to do to get it connected and mounted?

 

[tuka]

On the host
1. cd /dev/rmt
2. ls ( do you see any devices)
3. Will this tape drive be the only tape drive?
4. Insure the SCSI ID on this tape drive will not conflict
with the existing devices. If this drive was on this
system earlier and the ID wasn't changed then it should
be okay BUT check anyway.

5. Insure the drive is cabled into the system and powered
up.

6. If you saw device numbers in step 2 then load a tape
into the tape drive.
Use this command mt -f /dev/rmt/X status
(X=number seen in step 2
such as 0 or or 2)
7. continue the mt -f /dev/rmt/x status thur all the
numbers. If you see a messages showing a tape is loaded
than that is your device number.

8. If step 2 showed no number. Insure the drive is cabled
and powered up. Run this command
9. If solaris 7 or above
devfsadm -c tape
10. cd /dev/rmt
11. ls (should see device numbers)
12. If you can reboot the system run this command
reboot -- -r
13 if below solaris 7 run this command
drvconfig tapes

or reboot -- -r

14. cd /dev/rmt
15. ls (look for devices)