[SunHELP] mt - device busy

[Will Mc Donald]

If you've got lsof installed that might point you in the right direction? Or
fuser?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Melinda Taylor" <melinda at phys.unsw.edu.au>
To: <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:20 AM
Subject: [SunHELP] mt - device busy


>
> Is there a way to take control of the tape drive away from a process?  Or
> find out what is using it (besides the obvious ie grep 'mt' 'tar' etc). My
> tape drive seems to be in a wierd state where "mt status"  returns
> "/dev/rmt/0ln: Device busy" even when there is no tape in the drive.  Are
> there lock files somewhere I can remove or something?  I'd prefer not to
> reboot/reconfigure etc. It has been working fine up until now.
>
> The tape drive is Seagate DDS3.
>
> Thanks,
>
> MElinda