Tapeware back up problem in Linux

[Yong Shiuh Rong]

I have a HP Surestore dat 40 tape array attached to a Itanium Server, after install the tapeware for linux that come bundle with the tape array, it cannot backup to the tape when I try to run it, the error message is error 88: No device specified or all devices are now offline. But i can use tar command to backup the file onto the tape. Is there anything I missed out?

[Steven E. Protter]

Can you get files off the tape?

tar tvf /dev/rmt/0m (whatever device the tape uses in Linux).

One promising doc.
http://docs.hp.com/cgi-bin/fsearch/framedisplay?top=/hpux/onlinedocs/T1441-90005/T1442-90005_top.html&con=/hpux/onlinedocs/T1442-90005/00/00/5-con.html&toc=/hpux/onlinedocs/T1442-90005/00/00/5-toc.html&searchterms=Surestore%7cLinux%7cconfiguration%7cHP&queryid=20030710-213840

My itrc search
http://us-support.external.hp.com/emse/bin/doc.pl/sid=d445f8011105c511e4?todo=search&searchtext=HP+Surestore+Linux+configuration&x=24&y=1&searchcriteria=allwords&searchtype=SEARCH_TECH_DOCS&searchtype=SEARCH_MANUAL&searchtype=SEARCH_FORUMS&searchcategory=ALL&rn=25&presort=rank

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[Caesar_3]

Hello!

SO you say that you can work with the tape
with commands like tar (read/write) also dd.
If so maybe you need to upgrate the tapeware
for the newest version.

Caesar