Summary: can't detect USB tape drive on Solaris 9 x86

My thanks go out to Ric Anderson and Mohammed Tanvir for their replies
in dealing with my USB tape drive issue.

In the end I resolved it by going onsite, shutting down the machine
which thankfully is not live yet anyway. I checked and the internal DAT
72 drive was powered and plugged in to the USB socket. To be sure I
switched sockets and then I restarted the computer and ensured it did a
boot reconfig. The drive reappeared on the system and /dev/rmt was
recreated with all it's devices.

mt -f /dev/rmt/0cn status showed the correct output and the tape
responded to commands to offline and eject the tape etc. Backups are
now running ok so it's all good.

Thanks again

Regards

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