Thank you to all who responded so quickly.
My syntax was the problem. I was omitting the "-f" in the command line.
I was using: mt rewind /dev/rmt1h & vrestore -i -v /dev/rmt1h
The correct syntax is:
mt -f /dev/rmt1h rewind
and
vrestore -i -v -f /dev/rmt1h
Original post:
I have two scsi TZ87 drives connected to an Alpha 2100 5/300 running 4.0F pk0007. I recently had to recreate these devices using MAKEDEV and now have a problem where eventhough one is set with an address of 5 (rmt0h) and the other is set to 3 (rmt1h) the same device "rmt0h" always responds to requests like "mt rewind" and other such tape operations *even* those for "rmt1h" (ie mt rewind /dev/rmt1h), the same behaviour happens with vrestore a well. I have verified the scsi addresses are correct on each device and the cabling is secure and terminated on the end device. I have recreated these devices and checked the scsi addresses several times trying to fix this but no luck. The system seems to ignoring the real "rmt1h" device completely.
Any ideas on why this might be?
Received on Tue Feb 11 2003 - 21:16:02 NZDT