Hello, I have a Solaris 9 box and we bought a new tape drive model Certance LTO-2. Currently, I am trying to identify the tape drive using amtapetype command but it does not work.
Let me go a step back and describe what I did so far. I connected the new tape drive to our Solaris 9 server and I restarted Solaris. Next in order to see that the server identified the new hardware I typed: #iostat -En and received the following output regarding the tape drive: # rmt/0 Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0 # Vendor: CERTANCE Product: ULTRIUM 2 Revision: 1703 Serial No: 5150-400 Finally, I want to run the amtapetype to identify the tape type definition but was enable to do so! When I typed: #amtapetype: /dev/rmt I received the following error message: #amtapetype: /dev/rmt: rewinding tape: Inappropriate ioctl for device When I typed: # amtapetype: /dev/rmt/0 OR #amtapetype -f /dev/rst13 OR #amtapetype -f /dev/nrst13 The output is : # amtapetype: could not open /dev/nst13: No such file or directory Any idea why I am getting those error messages and whether I miss a step in defining a new tape drive, or any command that describe where the new tape drive is mounted? This is propably a silly question but I am stuck so any help is welcome... Thanks for your help, gil
