[TriLUG] RH9 tape device? Revisited

[Byarlay, Wayne A.]

Oh, I'm sorry, no. here are the results of that... 

"SCSI 2 tape drive:
File number=0, block number=0, partition=0.
Tape block size 0 bytes. Density code 0x1b (DLT 35GB).
Soft error count since last status=0
General status bits on (41010000):
 BOT ONLINE IM_REP_EN"

Hmm. A bunch of 0's; maybe the tape is bad??

I will use a tape that I know for certain is good... but seems like a
bad tape would make some error light come on the unit...



 

-----Original Message-----
From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
Behalf Of Magnus Hedemark
Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 11:14 AM
To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] RH9 tape device? Revisited

On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Byarlay, Wayne A. wrote:

> but any attempts to "mt -f /dev/st0 rewind" don't make the drive blink

> like it's working... but I do get a prompt again almost immediately.

Did you ever try the suggested "mt -f /dev/st0 status"?

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