Hi Juergen,
> On Mon, May 17, 1999 at 05:24:41PM -0500, Don Branson wrote:
> > When afio fails on my tape drive, mt always reports "device or resource busy" and
>the tape is locked. How can I free this lock?
Does this mean, that afio sometimes runs fine?
>
> ...for example:
>
> mt -f /dev/whereever rewind
>
> or
>
> mt -f /dev/whereever offline
>
> or
>
> mt -f /dev/whereever unload (well, it depends on your drive...)
>
>
> or
>
> mt -f /dev/whereever reset (oh, I don't remember if mt-st contains this...?)
>
Did you try ftmt instead of mt?
Which modules are loaded? Are there any ftape related messages in
/var/log/messages?
> ...
Martin
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