[rescue] DLT drive dead want to replace without rebooting

[Brian Deloria]

Ultra 60, Solaris 9.  I've already got a spare NVRAM, my predecessor was
kind enough to have one on hand before departing.

On 11/28/06, Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Brian Deloria wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> >   I've got a DLT drive that bit the dust, and I've been doing some
> research
> > here and I'd like to hotswap the drive with it's replacement when it
> gets
> > here, however I'm not sure how nor do I know if I can reset the scsi
> bus.
> > The tape drive is on it's own controller which is the first good thing.
> >
> >   I'm reluctant to reboot the machine for one simple reason my
> predecessor
> > suspected that the NVRAM had gone bad, it's been online for over 600
> days,
> > and if the NVRAM gets replaced then there's several software licesnses
> that
> > are bound to the hostid which would cause a great deal of grief.
>
> What platform are you on?
>
> Peace...  Sridhar
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