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

[Mike Hebel]

On May 1, 2007, at 1:59 PM, Bill Bradford wrote:

> On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 01:27:34PM -0400, 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?
>
> With SUPPORTED tape drives, it "just works".
>
> Due to this being an IBM firmwared drive with a SCSI ID string that 
> Solaris
> wouldn't recognize, I had to "force" the OS to recognize the drive for 
> what
> it actually is.

I had to do something similar when I had a Sony AIT-1 300-model drive 
on Solaris 2.6 but that was an awful long time ago.

I'm frankly surprised you had to jump through hoops.

Mike
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