[TriLUG] RH9 tape device? Revisited

[Andrew Perrin]

You can also try

mt retension

which will wind the tape to the end, then rewind it - not that useful on a
regular basis, but it will certainly take long enough to see if the drive
responds.

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Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
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On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Dan wrote:

> --On Tuesday, March 30, 2004 11:19:27 AM -0500 "Byarlay, Wayne A."
> <wab at purdue.edu> wrote:
>
> > 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...
> >
> >
> >
>
> You are at Begin Of Tape, so the rewind is really quick <grin>.  Try
> specifying the non-rewind drive /dev/nst0.  If there is data on the tape
> you can make the drive move with something like
>
> export TAPE=/dev/nst0
> mt fsf1
> mt rewind
> mt offline
>
> I always set TAPE so I don't have to type so much.
>
> --
> Dan
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