The lsdev command displayed nothing. We did the shutdown -h command and also did the shutdown -r command in an attempt to have the system recognize the existance of the DAT drive.

I went into smit and attempted to Add a Tape Drive.

scsi0 Available 10-80 Wide/Fast-20 SCSI I/O Controller

I selected the scsi0, as this was the only option. We connected the scsi cable to the internal scsi connection.

We originally tested the connection with the tape scsi ID set to 4 and then tried 5. We keep getting this error:


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Method error (/etc/methods/cfgsctape):
0514-047 Cannot access a device.