Tape drive issue.

[jeevarajkn]

Dear Guru's

OS-HPUX 11.23
Tape--HP C7438A

I have installed the tape drive and its getting detected in ioscan -fnC tape

tape 0 0/7/1/0.0.0 stape CLAIMED DEVICE HP C7438A
/dev/rmt/0m /dev/rmt/0mnb /dev/rmt/
/dev/rmt/0mb /dev/rmt/c1t0d0BEST /dev/rmt/
/dev/rmt/0mn /dev/rmt/c1t0d0BESTb /dev/rmt/

But while Iam checking the status its not giving online so that backup got faileds.
Drive: HP C7438A
Format:
Status: [0]
File: 0
Block: 0

Please help me to sole the issue.

[OldSchool]

you will get the same message if the drive was set offline w/ a

mt -f /dev/rmt/0m offl

remove the tape and reinsert it. try writing a tar file to it.

[Johnson Punniyalingam]

>>But while Iam checking the status its not giving online so that backup got faileds.
<<

You will get this above results, when tape is not loaded or the tape as been ejected, due to some error's in the backup.

mt -f /dev/rmt/0mn status --> out shows the tape ONLINE (meaning tape is loaded) read to fire the backup.

Question:-

How are you performing your backup..? by any backup script.?

Thanks,
Johnson