On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 at 11:34am, John Grover wrote

> 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

I know very little about both Suns and DLTs ("then why are you 
responding?!"), but the fact that it thought it was at EOT seems odd to 
me.  ISTR Suns needing the right entries in an st.conf file (or some such) 
for tape drives -- do you have that?

Also be sure to check all the usual SCSI issues -- cable length, 
cable quality, termination, phase of the moon, color of the goat you 
sacrificed, etc.

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