Solaris 8 - IDE Tape Drive

Greetings!
I have Solaris 8 x86 up and running, but cannot get it to identify my HP Colorado 8 GB IDE tape drive. A 'dmesg' reports it found, 'devfsadm' will not create any links to /dev/rmt/.
Any ideas, or is it simply not supported?
-Dave Minor

Hello
back after a long while ... but I have the solution !
Darren, you were completely right, thanks ! I summarize if ever someone meets the same pb ...
1- normally, if the daemon "vold" is running, when inserting a CDROM in a drive, it's automatically mounted and then accessible with /cdrom/cdrom0
2- but, if "vold" is not running, it has to be launched :
/etc/init.d/volmgt start
3- if "vold" is running but you still can't access to your CDROM (it was my case !) => that means the CDROM is maybe not readable ! Actually I had a CD-RW and the drive couldn't read it. I copied the data on a normal CD-R and it worked !
thanks for help !
bye

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    Regards,
    Rajendra Rait.

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