On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 03:02:36PM -0500, Gil Naveh wrote:
> but I don't think it identified the new tape drive...
> >mt -f /dev/rmt/0n
> I got:
> >/dev/rmt/0n: no tape loaded or drive offline

On the contrary, I think that means your devfsadm command *did*
work.  You're now getting a tape-specific error message, instead
of a generic one; that means the system now understands that
/dev/rmt/0n is in fact a tape drive.

So, taking the message at face value ... Was there a tape loaded?
Was the drive online?

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