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Operating Systems Solaris configure tape drive to sun solaris 10 Post 302326371 by gnom on Wednesday 17th of June 2009 08:16:51 PM
Old 06-17-2009
the cfgadm -al (as root) gives something like this

Ap_Id Type Receptacle Occupant Condition
c0 scsi-bus connected configured unknown
c1 scsi-bus connected configured unknown

it it shows unconfigured try to configure it

cfgadm -c xxx (xxx is the number you see in cfgadm)

after run a devfsadm
 

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