[SunHELP] mt - device busy

[Ahmed Afrose]

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Melinda,
Try deleting the links in /dev/rmt and adding the device using drvconfig and
tapes commands. By the way, are there any orange LED's lick up showing a h/w
fault on the tape drive?
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Melinda Taylor wrote:

> 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
>
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