Installation in a Multi-Tape Backup Tray
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12. Verify that the system recognizes the tape drive.
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A correct response would resemble:
Other tape drive
on the first line of the output indicates that the tape
drive is correctly recognized. The rest of the output does not matter.
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Incorrect responses include:
•
No tape loaded or drive offline
indicates there is no cartridge
in the drive or that the cartridge is not yet loaded. Install a cartridge or
wait for the cartridge load to complete and retry the
mt status
command.
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No such file or directory
indicates there is no tape drive
attached to that rmt (remote) number. Try another remote number.
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SCSI tape drive
indicates the
st.conf
entry is incorrect. You must
edit the
st.conf
file and reboot until you no longer see
SCSI tape
drive
.
The Tape In Use LED should be lit, signifying that the drive is ready for use.
Go to Chapter 3, "Operation."
Note – If the tape drive does not complete POST, or if all the right- or left-side
LEDs blink repeatedly, go to “Troubleshooting” on page 6.
#mt -f /dev/rmt/
remote_number status
#mt -f /dev/rmt/3 status
Other tape drive:
sense key(0x0)= No Additional Sense
residual= 0
retries= 0
file no= 0 block no= 0
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