topic Re: DLT Drive Stuck Reading in Operating System - HP-UX

DLT Drive Stuck Reading

Wayne Green — Wed, 07 Jun 2000 12:23:19 GMT

I have a tape in a DLT drive which after my terminal emulator crashed was left in a reading state (without actually progressing on the lcd readout). I have killed any processes which may be hanging on to it to no avail. Is reboot the only answer?

Re: DLT Drive Stuck Reading

Scott D. Allen — Wed, 07 Jun 2000 13:58:04 GMT

So there is activity on the drive but no processes accessing it?

Can you power cycle the DLT without rebooting?

Try an mt command to the drive.

mt -t /dev/rmt/0 rew
or
mt -t /dev/rmt/0n offl

--Scott

Re: DLT Drive Stuck Reading

Alan Riggs — Wed, 07 Jun 2000 14:43:00 GMT

Also, use

fuser /dev/rmt/0m

to see whether any processes are still attached to the device file.