[geeks] wtf.

[Bill Bradford]

root at chip:/dev> mt -f /dev/nrst5 status
HP DDS-4 DAT (Sun) tape drive:
   sense key(0x6)= Unit Attention   residual= 0   retries= 0
   file no= 0   block no= 0

(standard hp/sun DDS4 drive, came with a sunblade 1000)

root at chip:/dev> mt -f /dev/nrst5 rewind
root at chip:/dev> cd /usr/local/sunhelp
root at chip:/usr/local/sunhelp> ls
backup-sync  home         passwd       src
group        mailman      shadow       www
root at chip:/usr/local/sunhelp> tar cvf /dev/nrst5 .
tar: Cannot open /dev/nrst5: Permission denied
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

"huh?"

root at chip:/usr/local/sunhelp> ls -al /dev/nrst5
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           8 Oct  5 00:51 /dev/nrst5 -> rmt/0lbn
root at chip:/usr/local/sunhelp> ls -al /dev/rmt/0lbn
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          44 Oct  5 00:49 /dev/rmt/0lbn -> ../../devices/pci at 8,700000/scsi at 6/st at 5,0:lbn
root at chip:/usr/local/sunhelp> ls -al /devices/pci\@8,700000/scsi\@6/st\@5,0\:lbn
crw-rw-rw-   1 root     sys       33,197 Oct  5 00:49 /devices/pci at 8,700000/scsi at 6/st at 5,0:lbn

Its a DDS-2 tape; could that be the reason?

I've done a boot -rv, etc.  Tape drive shows up just fine... I've used tons
of tape drives on solaris before without a problem, and now this..

Bill

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Bill Bradford
mrbill at mrbill.net
Austin, TX