Dear Admins,
When trying to use the erase argument with the mt command I get an error:/dev/nrmt0h erase 1 failed: No such device or address
Running 4.0F on XP1000, DS20, and ES40 with TLZ10 DDS3 4mm tape drives. The drives work fine and the other mt commands such as seod, rewind, and fsf also work. What's up with erase? I want to clear the tape so that the next mt seod will work if the tape is new or being reused.
I tried to go to the search but is seems to be unavailable at this time.
Thank you - Greg gkpoole_at_tecoenergy.com
root_at_pds_/> mt rdpos l
READ POSITION long format
Beginning of partition
File number: 0 (0x0)
Block number: 0 (0x0)
root_at_pds_/> mt erase
/dev/nrmt0h erase 1 failed: No such device or address
root_at_pds_/> mt -f /dev/nrmt0h erase
/dev/nrmt0h erase 1 failed: No such device or address
root/pds_/> mt -f /dev/rmt0h erase
/dev/rmt0h erase 1 failed: No such device or address
If I issue the command while the drive is busy I get this message:
root_at_pds_/> mt erase
/dev/nrmt0h: Device busy
Received on Fri May 11 2001 - 18:25:15 NZST