topic Re: Ejecting DDS tapes in Operating System - HP-UX

Ejecting DDS tapes

Todd Shawcross — Fri, 04 Jul 2003 00:06:54 GMT

Can anyone tell me what command I can use to eject a DDS3/4 tape? I want to add this to the end of our backup script so the tape ejects when the backup is complete.

Thanks.
Todd

Re: Ejecting DDS tapes

KCS_1 — Fri, 04 Jul 2003 00:10:29 GMT

Hi,Todd

Look at the manpage of "mt" more detail information,

# mt offl ( Tape offloading command )

Best Regards

-Patrick

Re: Ejecting DDS tapes

Rajeev Shukla — Fri, 04 Jul 2003 00:11:05 GMT

Its
mt -f offl

this will rewind the tape and eject

go through the man pages of mt

cheers
Rajeev

Re: Ejecting DDS tapes

Michael Tully — Fri, 04 Jul 2003 00:11:52 GMT

To offload a tape.

I usually rewind them first.

# mt -t /dev/rmt/0m rew

to offload

# mt -t /dev/rmt/0m offl

Re: Ejecting DDS tapes

twang — Fri, 04 Jul 2003 00:12:38 GMT

# mt off

Re: Ejecting DDS tapes

Sanjiv Sharma_1 — Fri, 04 Jul 2003 00:28:24 GMT

Hi Todd,

# mt -t offl

eg:
# mt -t /dev/rmt/0m offl

Thanks,

Re: Ejecting DDS tapes

Todd Shawcross — Fri, 04 Jul 2003 00:36:57 GMT

Thanks guys. Much appreciated.

Re: Ejecting DDS tapes

Caesar_3 — Fri, 04 Jul 2003 06:18:27 GMT

Hello!

mt offl

mt -f offl

If you don't use the -f option than it
will use the /dev/rmt/0m as the dds device.

Caesar

Re: Ejecting DDS tapes

Trond Haugen — Fri, 04 Jul 2003 08:41:43 GMT

If your tape device file is /dev/rmt/0m:
mt offl
othervise:
mt -f /dev/rmt/ offl

You will not get the prompt back until the IO is compleated and that will take some sec's.

Regards,
Trond