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Operating Systems Solaris Configure New LTO-2 Tape Drive Post 42055 by Perderabo on Tuesday 21st of October 2003 03:27:07 PM

10-21-2003

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The official procedure is to do a reconfiguration reboot. probe-scsi-all is a diagnostic tool. By doing it "live", do you mean that the box is running sunos and you added the tape drive without taking the box down? I always shutdown to add hardware and "boot -r" on the way back up. But if you added the drive and don't want to reboot, there may be a way. First make sure that prtconf can see the drive. If so, I think that one of following two sequences of commands might do it, but I'm not sure which. I would not experiment on a system that a care about, but maybe you'r bolder than me. The sequences in the order that I would try them are:

drvconfig
tapes

and

add_drv
tapes

If you try them, let me know if they worked or not. And if they trash your system, let me know how bad the damage was.

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reboot

REBOOT(8)						      System Manager's Manual							 REBOOT(8)

NAME

       reboot - reboot the system immediately

SYNOPSIS

       reboot [-f]

DESCRIPTION

       Reboot  can  be	used  to  reboot  the  system  after  installing a new kernel.	It does not inform the users, but does log it's actions in
       /usr/adm/wtmp and /usr/adm/authlog.  The system is then rebooted with the reboot(2) systemcall.

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       Reboot can only be executed by the super-user.  Any other caller will be refused, either by reboot(8) or by reboot(2).

SEE ALSO

       reboot(2), shutdown(8), halt(8), boot(8).

BUGS

       The  error message's given by reboot are not always useful.  There are several routines that can fail, but which are not fatal for the pro-
       gram.

AUTHOR

       Edvard Tuinder (v892231@si.hhs.NL)

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