Thanks to Ernest Gronblorm, Simon Millard and Ron Bramblett for their
responses.
Simon's answer went into the most detail (each basically said the same)
That as long as at the SRM prompt the new drive is seen and is on an
existing scsi bus then just boot the system scan the binerror.log (uerf
command) and search for tzxx for the name of the drive and if the *rmt*
devices are not in /dev then in /dev run MAKEDEV tzxx to create the
devices specific files.
Joe Ryals
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Adding Tape Drive
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 10:58:12 -0400
From: Joe Ryals <Joe_Ryals_at_csx.com>
Organization: CSX Technology
To: Tru64 Managers List <tru64-unix-managers_at_ornl.gov>
Followup-To: poster
I have a couple of AlphaServer 300's that are currently running 4.0E
that I want to attach an external 8mm tape drive so that I can backup
the systems prior to upgrading them to 4.0F. I want to know is this; is
there another process to have the system recognize the tape drive
without having to boot the system off the genvmunix kernel, do a rebuild
and then reboot off the new kernel? Or am I stuck with this scenario.
Also if there is another way to do this under a normal boot does this
work with other devices/adapters?
Joe Ryals
Received on Tue Aug 08 2000 - 17:10:47 NZST