[TriLUG] RH9 tape device? Revisited

[Roy Vestal]

One thing I haven't seen in this thread, have you run a cleaning tape?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Scott Chilcote" <scottchilcote at earthlink.net>
To: "Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list" <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 2:24 PM
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] RH9 tape device? Revisited


> Byarlay, Wayne A. wrote:
>
> > Thanks all... I'm still experiencing a problem...
> >
> > OK, well, I set export TAPE=/dev/nst0.
> >
> > If I try:
> >
> > #mt -f /dev/nst0 bsf 1
> >
> > I get "/dev/nst0: Input/output error". Gah!
>
> One Suggestion.  You'll usually get an error from the device driver when
> a message like this occurs.  You could try running "tail -f
> /var/log/messages" in another session when you enter this command and see.
>
> Did you try "tar tvf /dev/nst0" to see if your tar archive worked
properly?
>
> If you look at the mt man page, "stoptions" includes a no_wait state
> that causes mt to return promptly rather than waiting for requested
> operations to complete.  Could this be set?  "mt status" should list the
> status bits that are set.
>
> Good luck.
>
>     Scott C.
>
>
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