topic Tape not responding in Operating System - HP-UX

Tape not responding

Angela Swyers_1 — Mon, 23 Aug 2004 18:23:36 GMT

We had an external Quantum DLT8000 go bad in our server. A new one was shipped out. I assume that this is hot-swappable so I removed the bad one and put in the new one after confirming that the SCSI address was correct. When I do an ioscan it sees the tape, yet when I do a tar I get:

tar: cannot open /dev/rmt/2m

When I do a mt on it I get device busy. I am trying to avoid a reboot on the server. Any ideas?

Re: Tape not responding

Sundar_7 — Mon, 23 Aug 2004 18:42:55 GMT

did you execute a insf -e after installing the new drive ?

remove the device files for the tape using rmsf command issue

1) ioscan -fnC tape
2) insf -e

See if this helps.

Re: Tape not responding

D Block 2 — Mon, 23 Aug 2004 20:05:37 GMT

Angela,

are there lbot errors printed out ?

type: dmesg

also, you might clear this problem by Power Cycling the unit: the DLT800. I don't think it might hurt, but do it off hours, be safe.

Re: Tape not responding

Franky_1 — Tue, 24 Aug 2004 02:44:54 GMT

Hi,

you can try an "insf -e" to reinstall the special files for the pseudo-drivers and existing devices.
Other than that i fear that a reboot seems not to be avoidable

Regards

Franky