mt does seem to be "talking" to the tape drive though - "mt offline" ejects the tape, "mt seek" makes the light blink, "mt erase" makes the light blink for a LONG time, etc.There's nothing in your `mt status` that says what tape drive it's talking to. My guess is that your SCSI devices got renumbered somehow. I think the nst* devices are issued in the order they're found, and if the device that was nst0 is gone, nst1 is now nst0.Try `mt -f /dev/nst0 status` and `mt -f /dev/nst1 status` and see which one looks like your tape drive.
Could there still be an issue with tape numbering, even with this behavior?
Thanks a lot!
