Hi,
I've got a couple of answers from you all (Felix Maurer, Richard Starzak,
Roberto Mackun, Werner Wost and Alex Harkema) and extracted the following
result out of it:
There are some known issues with "mt -f /dev/<tapedr> erase", better use
"scu -f /dev/<tapedr> mt erase".
In answer to Alex: This may be also the solution under Tru64 v5.1 where the
mt erase function is not available anymore?
Thank you all for helping me!
Kind regards, Luitzen van Gorkum
> -----Original Message-----
> Could someone help me please?
>
> I'm testing for backup's to be made with vdump, vrestore and mt commands.
> All seems to work fine but the mt erase command allways returns an error.
> I've tried all the commandline options I can find, found out that adding a
> number will give multiple erases but I've never got a tape realy erased.
> The error code is:
>
> # mt -f /dev/nrmt0h load
> # mt -f /dev/nrmt0h erase
> /dev/nrmt0h erase 1 failed: No such device or address
> # mt -f /dev/rmt0h erase
> /dev/rmt0h erase 1 failed: No such device or address
> # mt -f /dev/nrmt0h offline
> #
>
> I don't know what is going wrong and I can't find any documentation on
> it...
>
> Kind regards, Luitzen van Gorkum
Received on Thu Feb 01 2001 - 12:30:10 NZDT