I attached a new external DLT to my E450 and rebotted with "boot -r".
When I enter "mt status" it shows me the DLT, but if I try to write to
the tape I get an I/O error. What else do I need to do to configure the
tape drive? This server also has an internal DAT drive.
Here is an example session
bash-2.03# mt status
Quantum DLT8000 tape drive:
sense key(0x13)= EOT residual= 0 retries= 0
file no= 0 block no= 0
bash-2.03# mt rewind
/dev/rmt/0n rewind 1 failed: I/O error
bash-2.03# ls /dev/rmt
0 0bn 0cb 0cn 0hb 0hn 0lb 0ln 0mb 0mn 0u 0ubn
0b 0c 0cbn 0h 0hbn 0l 0lbn 0m 0mbn 0n 0ub 0un
bash-2.03# tar cvf /dev/rmt/0m gcc-3.3-sol8-sparc-local.gz
gcc-3.3-sol8-sparc-local.gz
tar: /dev/rmt/0m: Wrote only 0 of 10240 bytes
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
bash-2.03#
Any hints would be appreciated!
JG
John W Grover, Systems and Database Administrator
Lake Michigan College
www.lakemichigancollege.edu
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