SuSE

I am trying to get my SUSE 10 server to recognize some tape drives, and there is an issue. I am familiar with the solaris command "reboot --r", is there something similar in SUSE?

Thanks.

what does reboot --r do in solaris?

in solaris it is "reboot -- -r"! this does a "reconfigure boot" which looks for new hardware and creates /dev and /devices entries.
in linux this should be something like "**mod" commands... mod for loading modules to work with the new hardware...

hth,
DN2

blah.

What does the blah command do?

Code:

vnix$ apropos blah
blah (7) - there is no straightforward equivalent for this Solaris command

How are the tape drives connected (scsi, ide, usb??), and were they connected when the server was last started?

You can look in dmesg to see if there is any mention (if the machine has been up for a while the output may be quite long, pipe it through less). If there is this should give you a clue as to what modules are needed, but the udev system should have auto loaded them if the hardware was recognised.