Thanks to Ashish Tripathi, Tom Traina, Michael Acklin, and Alan Rollow for
their responses. It looks like the culprit was 2 fold. First, I did not
have the cabling right on the tape library itself and second, it looks like
my tape drive can ONLY write to superDLT though I thought I read somewhere
that DLT4's would work.
Thanks again,
Chris
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Bryant
Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 10:59 AM
To: Tru64 Unix (tru64-unix-managers_at_ornl.gov)
Subject: UPDATE: Cannot access tape device
Ok, I can now execute mt commands after calling HP support and checking the
cableing. Now when I execute the following command
/sbin/vdump -0 -x8 -u -N -f /dev/ntape/tape1_d1 /
I get the following
vdump: can't open dev </dev/ntape/tape1_d1>; [13] Permission denied
Any ideas?
TIA,
Chris
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Bryant
Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 9:59 AM
To: Tru64 Unix (tru64-unix-managers_at_ornl.gov)
Subject: Cannot access tape device
Admins,
I have an alpha 4100 running 5.1B pk 1. I have connected a MSL5026
with one SuperDLT tape drive. I checked to see if I had a valid path to the
tape drive and the changer which I have and I can control the changer via
the media robot utility. However, I cannot execute a mt command or a vdump
command. When I first executed a vdump I was getting permission denied
error. However now when I do a vdump or a mt command it just hangs. Any
Ideas? I will summarize.
TIA,
Chris Bryant
Unix Administrator
Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group
Received on Wed Jul 16 2003 - 18:35:38 NZST