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12-16-2005

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Tape drive issues with SCO 5.0.5!!!

Hi

Don't know if anyone will be able to help, but we're currently having problems with our external tape drive on our SCO server. If I try the following command for instance, "tar cvf /dev/rStp0", the tape drive jumps into action for a while, then comes back with the error "tar: cannot open: /dev/rStp0", theres an entry in /var/adm/messages...

Fri Dec 16 16:48:04 2005
%Stp-0 - - - Vendor=COMPAQ Product=DLT8000

I'm an AIX system adminitrator so know my way around unix although SCO is a bit alien to me, I've tried swapping the hardware, different tape drive, (Still a 40/80 with SCSI ID 6) and cable, media and rebooting etc, all to no avail, so don't believe it to be a hardware issue. What else can you suggest I check?

Thanks for you help in advance!!!

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tcopy

tcopy(1)							   User Commands							  tcopy(1)

NAME

       tcopy - copy a magnetic tape

SYNOPSIS

       tcopy source [destination]

DESCRIPTION

       The  tcopy  utility copies the magnetic tape mounted on the tape drive specified by the source argument. The only assumption made about the
       contents of a tape is that there are two tape marks at the end.

       When only a source drive is specified, tcopy scans the tape, and displays information about the sizes of records and tape files. If a  des-
       tination  is  specified,  tcopy makes a copies the source tape onto the destination tape, with blocking preserved. As it copies, tcopy pro-
       duces the same output as it does when only scanning a tape.

       The tcopy utility requires the use of Berkeley-compatible device names. For example,

	 example% tcopy /dev/rmt/1b /dev/rmt/2b

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWesu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       mt(1), ioctl(2), attributes(5)

NOTES

       tcopy will only run on systems supporting an associated set of  ioctl(2) requests.

SunOS 5.11							    10 Mar 2000 							  tcopy(1)