On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 05:37:59PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> 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.
> 

I shouldn't have called them status numbers,
I mean the codes returned by mt as the "sense key".

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