SUMMARY: dlt hot pluggable

A's. thank you.

Yes you can. Just make sure the bus to which the tape drive is attached is
quiescent ie shut down any apps which might attempt to access it while you
do the work. While it's perhaps not strictly in the book of best practices
you can usaully get away with doing this. I'd also take extra care with
anti-static precautions.

Yes you can do that. The precautions I usually take are to ensure that the
tape
drive is the only or last device physically present on the chain and that
power
is removed from the drive before removing it. I also usually remove the host
end of the cable and (if necessary) put on an external terminator.
The only time I have struck trouble is where some clever individual has come
along and put a large disk drive on the end of the chain with the tape in
the
middle.

Should be able to do it without a problem. you can run "tapes" and
"drvconfig"
just to be on the safe side when you
connect it.

Solaris won't care, but the scsi bus might.
If nothing else is on the controller, then I don't have too much of a
problem with it.  The only thing is that with voltage up, you could fry
the scsi stuff on the drive, or the controller.
It's possible, it usually works, it's not guaranteed.
The "hot-pluggable" drives usually are SCA so that you can guarantee
that certain pins don't connect before others do.

-----Original Message-----

is a dlt 7000 and dlt 8000 hot pluggable on a 450??

by that, while the server is power on and multitasking, can i detach the dlt
drive and re-attach without a problem?

thanks.