RE: [K12OSN] Tape drive....does it need an entry in fstab ?

Bert Rolston (BertR@wanganui-city.school.nz)
Fri, 10 May 2002 09:37:35 +1200


Hi all,

Ditto for me

Bert

On Friday, May 10, 2002 8:34 AM, Doug Simpson [SMTP:simpsond@leopards.k12.ar.us] wrote:
> No tape in drive
> Error reading magic number
> and various others
> just various things.
> 
> mt -f /dev/rewoffl 
> 
> will eject the tape but that is about the only thing I know works on it.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> DS
> 
> > 
> > simpsond@leopards.k12.ar.us said:
> > > My tape device is /dev/st0 but I get write errors to it.
> > > Any ideas. . .?
> > 
> > There are lot's of things that can cause errors, from file
> > permissions (on /dev/st0; are you running as root?) to improper
> > bus termination. I have two drives here that just stopped
> > working. They power up, the driver finds them, but they 
> > respond with an error to any command.
> > 
> > What errors do you get?
> > 
> > john-
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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