On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 11:34:27AM -0400, 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.

This last sentence does not jive with your ls /dev/rmt down below.

> 
> 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

If Solaris were seeing both tape drives you would have both
rmt/0 and rmt/1 entries.  Doesn't sound like it was installed
successfully.

There may be some docs on the meaning of these status numbers,
but I don't know it.  My DDS drive, when ready, shows status key 0x0.
Any other shows some error status or something other than ready at least.


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