Re: /dev/tape: No such device (the solution!)
spiegl@hamster.appl-math.tu-muenchen.de (Andy Spiegl) writes:
> The Linux kernel is able to rescan the SCSI-bus at run-time (normaly it
> does so once at boot time only)
>
> Therefore you should do the following as root, before insmoding (or
> executing someting on the /dev/tape device, e.g. tar, cpio)
>
> echo "scsi rescan singledevice 0 0 4 0" > /proc/scsi/scsi
Wow, I had no idea. That's quite nice. Linux continues to amaze me.
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Rob
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