topic Re: Ejecting Ignite tape in Operating System - HP-UX

Ejecting Ignite tape

Nikee Reddy — Wed, 18 Jun 2003 14:29:07 GMT

Hello Folks,

How can I eject the DDS3 ignite tape from the tape device using the command line option?

Thanks,
Nikee

Re: Ejecting Ignite tape

Stefan Farrelly — Wed, 18 Jun 2003 14:30:56 GMT

mt -t /dev/rmt/ offl

eg. mt -t /dev/rmt/0m offl

Re: Ejecting Ignite tape

James R. Ferguson — Wed, 18 Jun 2003 14:31:11 GMT

Hi Nikee:

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

...for examople.

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: Ejecting Ignite tape

Jeff Schussele — Wed, 18 Jun 2003 14:32:06 GMT

Hi Nikee,

If your tape is the default device - /dev/rmt/0mn - then use

mt offl

If not default then use

mt -f /dev/rmt/Xmn offl

where X=instance # EX: 1,2, etc.

HTH,
Jeff

Re: Ejecting Ignite tape

John Meissner — Wed, 18 Jun 2003 14:34:21 GMT

lean something new every day....

and i thought i was lazy :)
I usually just hit the button....

Re: Ejecting Ignite tape

Ian Dennison_1 — Wed, 18 Jun 2003 14:36:37 GMT

In addition,

mt -f /dev/rmt/0mn rew
if (( $? > 0 ))
then
# print error
fi

I put this one at the start of all my ignite scripts, to get it to detect that there is a tape in the drive. No tape = non-zero Return Code, valid tape = zero Return code.

Share and Enjoy! Ian

Re: Ejecting Ignite tape

Patrick Wallek — Wed, 18 Jun 2003 15:05:44 GMT

Just an additional comment regarding the mt command:

On HP-UX 11.X 'mt -t' is obsolete. You should actually use 'mt -f /dev/rmt/?mn command', so to eject use:

# mt -f /dev/rmt/?mn offl

If you are still on HP-UX 10.20 then you must use the '-t' as 10.20 does not support '-f'.

Re: Ejecting Ignite tape

Hakki Aydin Ucar — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 07:47:22 GMT

I use this scrip to check Tapes:

#!/bin/sh

teypler=$(ioscan -fnC tape | grep mn | awk '/dev/rmt {print $1}')
#echo $teypler

for I in `echo $teypler`
do
RC=$(mt -f $I status |grep Status|awk '{print $2}' |tr -d '['|tr -d ']')
if [ $RC -gt 0 ]
then
echo " There is a tape in the drive of $I :Status[$RC]"
else
echo " Tape Drive is empty [$I]"
fi
done