tape reset gives no /dev/xct0
joe mc cool
When I execute:
tape reset
the system responds:
tape: can't open '/dev/xct0': No such device or address
Yet, the xct0 is definately there:
crw-rw-rw- 3 root root 46,128 Mar 27 1999 /dev/xct0
Might this indicate a physical problem with the tape drive. I've
changed nothing in the software in years.
Thanks a lot.
Joe Mc Cool
Jean-Pierre Radley
Yes it might. I had exactly that problem yesterday; not just that
command, but other tape|tar|edge commands failed too. After swapping
the drive with another one on my shelf, tape commands then worked.
--
JP
Bela Lubkin
Could be a physical problem. If the drive is being recognized, you
should have two lines in `hwconfig -h` output. You get a "%tape" line
at boot time, indicating that the driver is configured to allow access
to a drive. Then, the first time you access the drive, you get a "%Stp"
line giving more specific details of the actual drive.
You should be able to see old samples of these from previous boots when
the drive was working, in /usr/adm/messages. (The "%Stp" line won't
necessarily appear next to the rest of the laundry list.)
If you're not seeing "%Stp" now, the driver isn't recognizing the drive.
"No such device or address", ENXIO, means that your attempt got down to
the driver, which said no hardware was present. If the device node was
missing you would have gotten ENODEV, "No such file or directory".
>Bela<