Re: Exabyte 8505 XLS can't read old tapes - resolved

[Andy Howell]

Jon LaBadie wrote:
Checking st.conf entries was going to be one suggestion.  Along with
what does "prtconf -v" report about the drive and what entry it chose
to use for the tape drive.
Now I see an entry for the tape:

                    st (driver not attached)
                        System software properties:
                            name <tape-config-list> length <60>
                                value 'EXABYTE IBM-8505' + 'Exabyte 
IBM-8505 8mm Helical Scan' + 'IBM-850
5'
                            name <IBM-8505> length <40>
                                value 
<0x0000000100000029000000000000ce390000000400000014000000150000008c
0000008c00000001>.

I guess that was probably empty before.

You 'should have been' able to avoid a reboot after by using devfsadm(1m).
That runs at boot time to check devices.  With arguments it can be made
to work on just a class of devices, like disk or tape or ...
Thanks, I'll keep that in mind for next time. Normally I hate rebooting 
to solve problems. At 2am though, its usually a lot faster :)

Thanks,

	Andy