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Tape error.

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I am new to unix. We use Travan tapes to backup. The tape drive on two of our machines was working fine till this morning till we used the cleaning tape. We put the cleaning tape on the first machine, it got struck so we have to pull it out. Since then when we do the tar command we are getting the can not open /dev/rct0 error. The same is the case with the other machine. Could someone please tell me how to debug this error...Thanks a lot...
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First, try cleaning the drive again. Then reboot the system.

You may have to take out the tape drive and manually clean the heads.

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