I attached a new external DLT to my E450 and rebotted with "boot -r".
When I enter "mt status" it shows me the DLT, but if I try to write to
the tape I get an I/O error. What else do I need to do to configure the
tape drive? This server also has an internal DAT drive.

Here is an example session

bash-2.03# mt status
Quantum DLT8000 tape drive:
   sense key(0x13)= EOT   residual= 0   retries= 0
   file no= 0   block no= 0
bash-2.03# mt rewind
/dev/rmt/0n rewind 1 failed: I/O error
bash-2.03# ls /dev/rmt
0     0bn   0cb   0cn   0hb   0hn   0lb   0ln   0mb   0mn   0u    0ubn
0b    0c    0cbn  0h    0hbn  0l    0lbn  0m    0mbn  0n    0ub   0un
bash-2.03# tar cvf /dev/rmt/0m gcc-3.3-sol8-sparc-local.gz
gcc-3.3-sol8-sparc-local.gz
tar: /dev/rmt/0m: Wrote only 0 of 10240 bytes
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
bash-2.03#

Any hints would be appreciated!

JG



John W Grover, Systems and Database Administrator
              Lake Michigan College
            www.lakemichigancollege.edu

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