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DLT Drive Stuck Reading

 
Wayne Green
Frequent Advisor

‎06-07-2000 05:23 AM

‎06-07-2000 05:23 AM

DLT Drive Stuck Reading

I have a tape in a DLT drive which after my terminal emulator crashed was left in a reading state (without actually progressing on the lcd readout). I have killed any processes which may be hanging on to it to no avail. Is reboot the only answer?
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Scott D. Allen
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‎06-07-2000 06:58 AM

‎06-07-2000 06:58 AM

Re: DLT Drive Stuck Reading

So there is activity on the drive but no processes accessing it?

Can you power cycle the DLT without rebooting?

Try an mt command to the drive.

mt -t /dev/rmt/0 rew
or
mt -t /dev/rmt/0n offl

--Scott
"Sometimes the devil you know is better than the devil you don't know."
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Alan Riggs
Honored Contributor

‎06-07-2000 07:43 AM

‎06-07-2000 07:43 AM

Re: DLT Drive Stuck Reading

Also, use

fuser /dev/rmt/0m

to see whether any processes are still attached to the device file.
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