Frank Smith scripted :: >--On Wednesday, December 03, 2003 10:54:20 -0500 Josiah Ritchie ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> So I'm running these commands that Jay gave me. >> >># mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind >># mt -f /dev/nst0 status >># tar cbf 64 /dev/nst0 /etc >># tar cbf 64 /dev/nst0 /var >> >> Then I ran: >># tar cbf 64 /dev/nst0 /usr >> and received this message. >> >> tar: Removing leading `/' from member names >> tar: /dev/nst0: Wrote only 0 of 32768 bytes >> tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now >> >> Does that indicate that the tape is full? I'm figuring not, because it said >it> didn't write anything from that last command. >> >> When I entered the next command: >># mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind >> /dev/nst0: No such device or address > >If the mt rewind and status commands you listed at the top worked, but >now you get an error, I would guess the drive or interface has locked up. >Check your system logs for errors.
System logs report nothing about the tape drive. What is the service I should be looking for? I'm relatively sure it isn't there anyway because my logs both /var/log/messages and syslog have only [sn]mbd and rpc.* services reporting. Nothing from the kernel or elsewhere. I finally broke down and rmmod/modprobe both st and aic7xxx. This resulted in no change of anything. I might just need to do a full powerdown of the device and cut the power to it to reset it unless anyone has a better idea. Thanks, Josiah
