How to check the tape drive status in HPUX 10.2?

[Sathesh Kumar_1]

How to check the tape drive status in HPUX 10.2? I want to check my tape drive status as online/offline.

[Andrew Rutter]

hi,

not very easily in 10.20

in 11. and up we have the status option for the mt command but not in 10.20

there are a few options you can try with the mt command, see the man pages

http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~arik/usail/man/hpux/mt.1.html

Andy

[AINMS]

try to use this command
#ioscan -funC tape

HTH
AINMS

[V. Nyga]

Hi Sathesh,

you're using a second account?

Have you tried to check the status with SAM?
For example with 'Backup and Recovery' the system is searching for a available tape drive - so if it's not available I believe it's offline.


HTH
Volkmar

[Suraj K Sankari]

HI,

ioscan -fnC tape

Status should come as CLAIMED

Suraj

[T G Manikandan]

if the drive is CLAIMED, you can also use

mt -t /dev/rmt/?? status

[V. Nyga]

wow - what happened with Sathesh's comment just before mine?
Admins, please more comments if you change threads ...

V.

[Sathesh Kumar T]

Hello,

the status is said is CLAIMED, but is don't show anything in SAM, like it online or offline

#mt -t /dev/rmt/0m stat .. is not able show the status output.. reason in 10.2 don't have option like "stat"

thanks

sathesh

[Sp4admin]

Can you tar a file to the drive? try a tar -t /dev/rmt/0m if that's you tape device. You can check with "ioscan -fnC tape"

sp,

[Taifur]

Hi Sathesh,

For checking tape drive

#ioscan -funC tape

Try to backup after above command by
#tar -cvf /dev/rmt/0m

Rgds//
Taifur