Re: [Networker] Cannot write to tape drive -- read only file system?

Sounds like the tape might be write protected.

On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 10:56:03 -0400, George Sinclair
<george.sinclair AT noaa DOT gov> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I enabled a previously disabled device last night. This is a Seagate LTO
> gen. 1 drive. There are 4 drives (/dev/nst0-4) in this Storagetek L80.
> Anyway, I come in this morning to discover that NetWorker apparently
> thinks /dev/nst0 is a read-only device. There were a lot of messages in
> the log file indicating that /dev/nst0 is a read-only file system, so it
> was unable to write to any tapes using that device. I checked the device
> configuration under nwadmin, and it was 'Enabled' and 'Read only' was
> set to 'no'. Not sure about 'Write enabled' since that's listed under
> details so may not have set that last night before going home. Anyway, I
> set it to 'Yes' this morning, but as soon as I tried to label a tape in
> that drive, same error:
>
> Wed 10:34:26 AM rd=snode:/dev/nst0 Label without mount operation in
> progress
> Wed 10:34:28 AM media warning: rd=snode:/dev/nst0 opening: Read-only
> file system
> Wed 10:35:28 AM rd=snode:/dev/nst0 write open error, Read-only file
> system
> Wed 10:35:29 AM rd=snode:/dev/nst0 Eject operation in progress
>
> How or why does NetWorker think this is a read-only file system?
>
> We're running 6.1.1 on Solaris 2.8 server with Linux storage node
> (snode). Storagetek library is attached to the storage node.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
>
> George
>
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