bring up tape drive

Peter plp-ysDPMY98cNQDDBjDh4tngg at public.gmane.org
Tue Mar 21 19:12:00 UTC 2006


Actually external SCSI tape drives are relatively immune to problems of 
this kind. One can unplug it (hot) and then reset the relevant scsi bus 
(which is to be dedicated). I do this with NetBSD and it's ok 99% of the 
time. However ejecting the media may not work if it's jammed. If it has 
to be an all-in-one solution, imho, put the tape drive in a removable 
cradle that plugs in from the front so you can remove it if necessary.

Peter
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