You can also try mt retension
which will wind the tape to the end, then rewind it - not that useful on a regular basis, but it will certainly take long enough to see if the drive responds. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Dan wrote: > --On Tuesday, March 30, 2004 11:19:27 AM -0500 "Byarlay, Wayne A." > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Oh, I'm sorry, no. here are the results of that... > > > > "SCSI 2 tape drive: > > File number=0, block number=0, partition=0. > > Tape block size 0 bytes. Density code 0x1b (DLT 35GB). > > Soft error count since last status=0 > > General status bits on (41010000): > > BOT ONLINE IM_REP_EN" > > > > Hmm. A bunch of 0's; maybe the tape is bad?? > > > > I will use a tape that I know for certain is good... but seems like a > > bad tape would make some error light come on the unit... > > > > > > > > You are at Begin Of Tape, so the rewind is really quick <grin>. Try > specifying the non-rewind drive /dev/nst0. If there is data on the tape > you can make the drive move with something like > > export TAPE=/dev/nst0 > mt fsf1 > mt rewind > mt offline > > I always set TAPE so I don't have to type so much. > > -- > Dan > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
