tape drive NO_HW

[Felix J. Liu]

A user accidentally pushed the on/off switch on the tape drive when intended to eject the tape. After power on, the tape is no longer accessible. 'ioscan -fnC tape' reports this tape NO_HW.

my questions: should this happen? what options do I have to revive this drive other than reboot?

Thank you in advance!

[Vincenzo Restuccia]

If it is external try remove and insert it,after ioscan -nfCtape.

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Hi Felix,

In most cases, power cycling a tape drive does no harm. I would try power cycling the drive again and let it remain off for 10 seconds or so. If that doesn't work, you might try
an ioscan -M stape -H 10/12/5.0.0 (or whatever your hardware path is) to force an I/O binding
but the NO_HW indicates that the hardware is not responding.