Ejecting Ignite tape

[Nikee Reddy]

Hello Folks,

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

Thanks,
Nikee

[Stefan Farrelly · Accepted solution]

mt -t /dev/rmt/ offl

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

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Nikee:

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

...for examople.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Jeff Schussele]

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

[John Meissner]

lean something new every day....

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

[Ian Dennison_1]

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

[Patrick Wallek]

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On HP-UX 11.X 'mt -t' is obsolete.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'.

[Hakki Aydin Ucar]

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