SCSI tape autoloader

[mmacdon]

I have installed an HP dat autoloader to my redhat 7.3 system. Everything seemed to be going alright. I was able to load tapes and tar files to the tapes without any problems. Now all of a sudden the system doesn't seem to be ableto see the tape device I get the following error when running the mtx command:

cannot open SCSI device '/dev/sg0' - No such device or address


Can someone please tell me if there is a way to get the system to search for and or possibly install this device again without having to reboot the system.

Thanks

[Lorithar]

perhaps the problem comes from the scsi modules. If you loaded the devices as modules rather than building them into the kernel you could try rmmod the modules and then modprobe -dv the modules again .. this might bring the devices back ... are you sure that the scsi controller still sees the devices???


/proc/scsi is your friend here ... check in there there are lots of files in there that will tell you what is loaded/not loaded.

[mdwatts]

Use

ls -al /proc/scsi

to see the contents of that directory and then i.e

cat /proc/scsi/scsi

to display the list of scsi devices.