[rescue] Anybody have a DDS-4 drive I can borrow?

[Patrick Finnegan]

On Tuesday 01 May 2007 13:27, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> Why does Solaris require all of this to work with a tape drive?
>
> With BSD or Linux, I just plug the drive in and start working.
>
> Isn't there a way to "just use it" in Solaris?

Yah know, that's what I was thinking...

Even AIX doesn't require this much fiddling.

Well, it's not quite "just plug the tape drive in"... you still need to 
rescan the SCSI bus (using scsiadd on Linux). :)

Pat
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