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Old 10-23-2017
Printer stopped working

I have a serial printer connected to a 16 port ran. All of a sudden my printer stopped working and not sure how to get it back. Can anyone help pint me in the write direction?


lsdev -Cc printer gives me the following. [Should this say available?]

Code:
lp0 Defined 0A-08-11-00 Other serial printer
lp1 Defined 0A-08-11-03 Other serial printer
lp2 Defined 0A-08-12-00 Other serial printer
lp4 Defined 0A-08-12-14 Other serial printer
lp5 Defined 0A-08-12-01 Other serial printer
lp6 Defined 0A-08-12-12 Other serial printer
lp7 Defined 0A-08-12-02 Other serial printer
lp8 Defined 0A-08-12-03 Other serial printer


lptest 10 10 > /dev/lp0
There is a request to a device or address that does not exist.
ksh: /dev/lp0: 0403-005 Cannot create the specified file.


Last edited by Don Cragun; 10-23-2017 at 11:06 PM.. Reason: Add CODE and ICODE tags.
# 2  
Old 10-23-2017
What is your operating system? uname -a Also your printer daemon
# 3  
Old 10-24-2017
This looks like AIX, and if so, the device is offline when the system came up.

Is there any relevant information in the output of errpt?
# 4  
Old 10-24-2017
Correct this is AIX.

uname -a
AIX rdl 3 5

errpt I have a few pages of repetition.

Code:
BA431EB7   1020010717 P S SRC            SOFTWARE PROGRAM ERROR
A6DF45AA   1020030317 I O RMCdaemon      The daemon is started.
D23E7CFC   1020030117 T H sisioa0        DISK ARRAY PROTECTION SUSPENDED
FFDFB692   1020030117 P H sisioa0        BATTERY PACK FAILURE
2BFA76F6   1020030017 T S SYSPROC        SYSTEM SHUTDOWN BY USER
9DBCFDEE   1020030217 T O errdemon       ERROR LOGGING TURNED ON
192AC071   1020030017 T O errdemon       ERROR LOGGING TURNED OFF


Last edited by Scott; 10-24-2017 at 09:24 AM.. Reason: Added additional CODE tags
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