On Mon, 4 Jul 2005 at 2:50pm, Kaushal Shriyan wrote

> I have Dellâ?¢ PowerVaultâ?¢ 122T LTO-2 tape drive with autoloader, Now 
> I have 5 tapes loaded in the Tape Drive, 

No -- you have 5 tapes in the loader.

> Now when I give the below command
> #mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind
> /dev/nst0: No medium found
> mt: The device is offline (not powered on, no tape ?).
> #
> 
> Please advice and guide me.

Err, was there a tape in the drive?  I'm guessing there wasn't.  You need 
to use 'mtx' to manipulate the loader.  'mt' just deals with the tape 
drive itself.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University