grephappiness's questions

I'm trying to hot plug a EXB-8900 tape drive into Solaris 10 and having issues.

Here's the process I follow. Please note this has worked:

cfgadm -x insert_device c4

yes at the first prompt to suspend SCSI activity on the c4 HBA. Next I connect and power on the device then input yes to the second prompt to complete the operation. At this point the terminal hangs and even after waiting for quite some time nothing happens. I repeated this exact same process to connect a different tape drive (Mammoth-2) and it worked without any issues.

checking the logs showed nothing

cat /var/adm/messages

Any further ideas how I could troubleshoot whats happening?

Thanks,

We have a Exabyte Mammoth-2 tape drive connected to a Solaris 10 box that's currently able to restore any Exabyte media no problem, but we have two other brands of 8mm tape that are shown as "illegal tapes" and ejected by the tape drive itself.

• Maxell HS-8/112
• 3M D8-112

From what I understand the Exabyte Mammoth-2 will only read AME format. However I can't find any information on what would support both the Maxell and 3M tapes (or even what format they are to begin with).

Any help on the matter is greatly appreciated.