On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 12:28:31PM -0600, Daniel Bentley wrote: > Have an old Sony SDT-9000 drive that I've had to do a manual eject on (as > in, use a screwdriver with the Loading/Threading motor access point on the > bottom of the drive to eject the tape). This is some time ago, and we > were upgrading to an SDT-11000 anyway, so the drive has been shelved > since. It is quite out of warranty (and was when this happened). > > Recently, I've dug it back out to see what can be done. The tape loading > mechanism will physically load and eject tapes fine, and the drive itself > reports via 'mt' and Sony's own 'sonytape' program. However, when a tape > is inserted, it is loaded, then the drive comes up with the 'Waiting for > Eject' LED code. Commands accessing the tape (ie. 'mtx <dev> status') > would simply go zombie, and refused to be killed until hitting the eject > button on the front of the drive.
If I recall correctly, that unit is not a changer. The mtx command is only used to manipulate the changer part of a changer. The mt command is used to manipulate the tape drive itself. On solaris, the mt command uses an argument of "offline" or "rewoffl" to eject the tape. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
