How to deconfigure a tape drive

[Preet Dhillon]

I've disconnected a DAT tape drive from my system and replaced it with a terminator. Ioscan now shows the device as NO_HW as below:
target 5 56/52.4 target NO_HW DEVICE
tape 0 56/52.4.0 tape2 NO_HW DEVICE HP C1533A

How can I remove the tape drive from the ioscan listing altogether ?

Many thanks in advance :-)

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

Hi:

See 'rmsf' (man 1M rmsf).

...JRF...

[Vincenzo Restuccia]

/sbin/rmsf [-a|-k] [-D directory] [-q|-v] special_file

/sbin/rmsf [-C class | -d driver] [-D directory] -H hw_path [-k] [-q|-v]

[Ravi_8]

Hi,
sam-->peripheral Devices-->Tape drives-->
select the tape drives, action menu-->remove.

your tape drve will be unconfigured.