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Operating Systems Solaris Magnetic Tape Post 302203195 by sparcguy on Friday 6th of June 2008 11:07:00 PM
Old 06-07-2008
source: docs.sun.com: Solaris Handbook for SMCC Peripherals


* Your system is able to access the tape drive and a tape cartridge is present, if the following status is displayed:


Archive QIC-150 tape drive:
sense key(0x0)= nosense residual= 0 retries= 0
file no= 0 block no= 0

sense key= nosense indicates that your system was able to access the tape and there were no errors. You can then use any of the backup commands described in the following sections.

* The following information tells you that the tape drive was just reset, powered on, or a tape cartridge was recently installed.


Archive QIC-150 tape drive:
sense key(0x6)= unit attention residual= 0 retries= 0
file no= 0 block no=0

In this case, execute the mt -f /dev/rmt/0 status command again until the sense key(0x6)= unit attention advisory message is replaced with the sense key(0x0)= nosense message.

* If the following status is displayed, your system is unable to access the tape.


/dev/rmt/0: no tape loaded or drive offline

In this case, insert a tape and execute the mt -f /dev/rmt/0 status command again.




Also, to further test have you tried doing a lowlevel tar and restore? I think the device for low level tar should be /dev/rmt/0l or 1l (L)
 

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tms(7)							 Miscellaneous Information Manual						    tms(7)

NAME
tms - TMSCP magnetic tape interface SYNOPSIS
For XMI/KDM on Alpha-based systems: bus xmi0 at iop0 vector xmierror controller uq0 at xmi? port kdm vector uqintr device tape tms0 at uq0 drive 0 For MSI Bus: only MIPS-based DECsystem 5500 bus msi0 at ibus? vector msi_isr controller dssc1 at msi0 msinode 1 device tape tms3 at dssc1 drive 3 For XMI/CI/HSC on Alpha-based systems: bus xmi0 at iop0 vector xmierror bus ci0 at xmi? port np vector cimna_isr controller hsc6 at ci0 cinode 6 device tape tms3 at hsc6 drive 3 For tms devices dual ported between two controllers: device tape tms2 at * drive 2 DESCRIPTION
The TMSCP driver provides a standard tape drive interface, as described in mtio(7). This is a driver for any controller that adheres to the Tape Mass Storage Control Protocol (TMSCP). The TMSCP controllers communicate with the host through a packet-oriented protocol termed the Tape Mass Storage Control Protocol. Tape Support - Alpha-based systems TA78, TA79, TA81, TA90, TA90E, TA91 Diagnostics All diagnostic messages are sent to the error logger subsystem. FILES
/dev/rmt??? /dev/nrmt??? SEE ALSO
mtio(7), MAKEDEV(8), uerf(8), tapex(8) delim off tms(7)
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