Tape Drive

[Ali Imran Abbas]

A tape drive was attached to a server and then removed and then attached back. There is a device file for the tape drive, but still the server is not detecting it in ioscan -funC tape output.

Can any one give me a clue how to solve the problem

[Tim Nelson · Accepted solution]

With tape device ON and all cables properly attached and terminated. execute ioscan, then ioscan -kfnC tape

If tape device still does not show, then there is a possible HW failure when it was removed, tape, cable, terminator, or HBA.

Double check to see if stape driver is still in kernel ( long shot ). kconfig/kmadmin -k|grep stape

[jolight]

Is the server rebooted after removing the tape drive? You can try to install the device files using
insf -eC tape

[SKR_1]

Reboot the server after fixing tape drive properly with the server.

After reboot, run the following commands

ioscan -fnC tape

And verify drive got detected and is in claimed state, also check device file is present.

If device file is not there, then run

insf -eC tape
ioscan -fnC tape


Thanks