can't detect USB tape drive on Solaris 9 x86

Hi managers,

I had a similar problem a while back with the same machine and I did get
it working with a reconfigure boot.

However since relocating the server to the customer's premises the
backups have been failing and the reason being that it was giving:

/dev/rmt/0cn: no such device or address

I checked and /dev/rmt/0cn was an ok link (ie not broken).

I thought maybe the USB cable had been unplugged and put in a different
socket so tried another reconfigure reboot with no success.

I next tried devfsadm. No change, so I thought maybe the fact there are
links in /dev/rmt to the devices and if they are incorrect I should
clean first then redetect. So I did a devfsadm -C -v.

It removed the links in /dev/rmt/ as well as /dev/rmt itself, but did
not redetect anything.

help? :)

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Andrew Bergman
Systems Administrator
Microlistics Pty Ltd
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