Seagate STT3401A on FC2

[Bob McClure Jr]

On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 09:53:59AM -0800, Rick Stevens wrote:
> Bob McClure Jr wrote:
> ><among other things>
> >
> >Here's an interesting thing about my tape.  After a reboot, an attempt
> >to back up to it results in a failure like "device busy" or some
> >such, but the next and all following work fine.  When I upgraded to
> >FC2, I think that problem went away.  I don't recall.  I don't reboot
> >that much. :-)
> 
> Yes, IDE tapes are normally "/dev/htx" or "/dev/nhtx".  SCSI tapes are
> "/dev/stx" and "/dev/nstx".
> 
> Bob, you might try "mt -i /dev/ht0 rewoffl" first (rewind and eject).

Umm, perhaps you meant "mt -f /dev/ht0 rewoffl"?  The man page doesn't
document a "-i" option.

> Sometimes that initializes the drive adequately to prevent such
> issues.

Cool.  I'll give it a try.

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Cheers,
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Bob McClure, Jr.             Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
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