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Operating Systems Solaris /dev/rmt/0mn: write protected or reserved Post 302411262 by vickyingle5 on Thursday 8th of April 2010 06:32:49 AM
Old 04-08-2010
/dev/rmt/0mn: write protected or reserved

# mt stat
HP DDS-4 DAT (Sun) tape drive:
sense key(0x0)= No Additional Sense residual= 0 retries= 0
file no= 0 block no= 0


mt -f /dev/rmt/0mn erase
/dev/rmt/0mn: write protected or reserved.

Getting error while ufsdump ....

--- Dumping / to /dev/rmt/0mn ---
DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Fri Apr 02 04:04:16 2010
DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch
DUMP: Dumping /dev/md/rdsk/d0 /) to /dev/rmt/0mn.
DUMP: Mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
DUMP: Mapping (Pass II) [directories]
DUMP: Writing 32 Kilobyte records
DUMP: Estimated 1594010 blocks (778.33MB).
DUMP: NEEDS ATTENTION: Cannot open `/dev/rmt/0mn'. Do you want to retry the open?: ("yes" or "no") YES

DUMP: NEEDS ATTENTION: Cannot open `/dev/rmt/0mn'. Do you want to retry the open?: ("yes" or "no") YES

DUMP: NEEDS ATTENTION: Cannot open `/dev/rmt/0mn'. Do you want to retry the open?: ("yes" or "no") YES

DUMP: NEEDS ATTENTION: Cannot open `/dev/rmt/0mn'. Do you want to retry the open?: ("yes" or "no") YES

---------- Post updated at 05:32 AM ---------- Previous update was at 04:28 AM ----------

The tape drive is connected on a sparc machine
 

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DUMP-UTMP(8)						     GNU Accounting Utilities						      DUMP-UTMP(8)

NAME
dump-utmp - print an utmp file in human-readable format. SYNOPSIS
dump-acct [-r|--reverse] [-R|--raw] [-n|--num recs] [-h|--help] [ files] DESCRIPTION
dump-acct filename prints a list of all logins. This list is usually written in /var/log/wtmp. All fields are separated by vertical line. Fields are: user name, tty, type, id, pid, hostaddr, host, time. OPTIONS
-h, --help Prints the usage string and default locations of system files to standard output and exits. -n, --num recs Number of lines to print. -r, --reverse Start printing from last records. -R, --raw Print raw records, not human-readable. FILES
wtmp The system wide login record file. See wtmp(5) for further details. SEE ALSO
login(1), wtmp(5), init(8), sa(8). AUTHOR
The GNU accounting utilities were written by Noel Cragg <noel@gnu.ai.mit.edu>. This manual page was written by Ognyan Kulev <ogi@fmi.uni-sofia.bg> and updated by Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> for the Debian project (but may be used by others). 6.5.1 2006-04-22 DUMP-UTMP(8)
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