> mt works on tape devices, not generic SCSI devices. Try > 'mt -f /dev/nst0'. > > > I'd thought the command: > > # mtx -f /dev/sg0 unload 12 1 > > would not need to function together with mt. > > It depends on the loader (and, sometimes, the loader's firmware settings). > Sometimes you can just send an 'unload' to the robot and it'll tell the > tape drive to eject the tape, and sometimes you need to explicitly > 'mt -f /dev/nst0 offline' before the 'mtx unload' will work.
that seems to have been the case here. Thankyou very much. I'm off to the next problem. Rich
