Put a DLT8000 tape online

[Chartier Jerome]

Hello,

How can put back a DLT tape online, after a mt offl command? Is the only solution to eject and put it back?

Thanks in advance

Regards

J??r??me

[Pete Randall · Accepted solution]

The mt offl command ejects the tape. Re-inserting the tape should put it back online.


Pete

[melvyn burnard]

afaik, you have to manually insert the tape again, unless of course it is an autochanger, in which case use the mc command

[Chartier Jerome]

Thanks,

So there is no remote solution to put a tape online?

Regards

Jerome

[Helen French]

The command will eject the tape and will go offline. You need to manually load another tape to get it online.

[Pete Randall]

Jerome,

I'm not really sure about the meaning of the term offline. The tape is unuseable simply because there is no tape loaded so I guess that makes it "offline". The only way to make it useable is to load a tape and the only way to do that is to insert one. If you have an autochanger you can use the mc command - otherwise it's a manual process by nature.

Pete