SUMMARY: how to add a tape device

From: Daniel Monjar <dam_at_orgtek.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:48:16 -0500

I think it is a bad drive, sysman -station shows tape0 as being
inaccessible and the lights on the drive are strobing in a pretty yet weird
pattern. I'm calling the hardware guys.

On 03/14 12:34 -0500, Daniel Monjar wrote:
> I have a 2100A running 5.0A. I plugged a TZ88 tape device onto the
> external SCSI port and rebooted. I can see the device MKB500 from the
> console and it is listed as a TZ88. When I boot into 5.0A it creates
> the device special files:
>
> /var/adm/syslog.dated/current# ls /dev/tape
> tape0 tape0_d0 tape0_d1 tape0_d2 tape0_d3 tape0_d4 tape0_d5 tape0_d6 tape0_d7 tape0c
>
>
> but this fails:
>
> /var/adm/syslog.dated/current# mt -f /dev/tape/tape0c status
> /dev/tape/tape0c: No such device or address
>
>
> as does this:
>
> /var/adm/syslog.dated/current# mt status
> /dev/ntape/tape0_d1: No such device or address
>
>
> Do I have to do something else to make the tape device usable?
>

-- 
Daniel Monjar (mailto:dmonjar_at_orgtek.com)
" 'cause Life's a lesson, you learn it when you're through."
	-- Limp Bizkit
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