On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 11:34:27AM -0400, John Grover wrote: > 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.
This last sentence does not jive with your ls /dev/rmt down below. > > 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 If Solaris were seeing both tape drives you would have both rmt/0 and rmt/1 entries. Doesn't sound like it was installed successfully. There may be some docs on the meaning of these status numbers, but I don't know it. My DDS drive, when ready, shows status key 0x0. Any other shows some error status or something other than ready at least. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
