Command equal to Solaris devfsadm in linux

I attached a tape drive to sun fire x4170m3 server having operating system OEL5.8, need to add the driver to the kernel as we do in solaris devfsadm -c tape,,
I would like to ask if someone know about any equal command to the solaris devfsadm so I can add driver module to the Linux kernel without rebooting the Server.
Thanks in Advance...
Owais Hyder.

To load and unload drivers in linux, you want to use the modprobe command. Chances are the scsi card (or fibre), is already loaded. You need to just load the scsi tape driver (st).
# modprobe st
You can check what scsi devices appear with:
# cat /proc/scsi/scsi
If the tape drive is not listed, then you may need to load additional drivers for the scsi card. In some cases, you may need to rescan the scsi bus. There are a couple of ways to do this. First see if the schell script rescan-scsi-bus.sh exists on the system. If not, just google around for rescanning the scsi bus.
Good luck
- David
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Edited by: kostya_berger on Mar 28, 2008 10:02 PM
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