On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 12:28:31PM -0600, Daniel Bentley wrote:
> Have an old Sony SDT-9000 drive that I've had to do a manual eject on (as 
> in, use a screwdriver with the Loading/Threading motor access point on the 
> bottom of the drive to eject the tape).  This is some time ago, and we 
> were upgrading to an SDT-11000 anyway, so the drive has been shelved 
> since.  It is quite out of warranty (and was when this happened).
> 
> Recently, I've dug it back out to see what can be done.  The tape loading 
> mechanism will physically load and eject tapes fine, and the drive itself 
> reports via 'mt' and Sony's own 'sonytape' program.  However, when a tape 
> is inserted, it is loaded, then the drive comes up with the 'Waiting for 
> Eject' LED code.  Commands accessing the tape (ie. 'mtx <dev> status') 
> would simply go zombie, and refused to be killed until hitting the eject 
> button on the front of the drive.

If I recall correctly, that unit is not a changer.
The mtx command is only used to manipulate the changer part of a changer.
The mt command is used to manipulate the tape drive itself.

On solaris, the mt command uses an argument of "offline" or "rewoffl"
to eject the tape.


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