Hi everyone, I have a ibm p65 server with an internal DAT 72 tape drive. When I go to press the eject button the second light will blink for several minutes then stop. If I issue a
tctl -f /dev/rmt0 status
it tells me its available and gives back other information.
Now if I try this
tctl -f /dev/rmt0 offline
it tells me device not ready. After some research people were saying that it was because the drive did not contain a tape. However I can clearly see a tape.
So at this point I am lost. My only other option I can think of would be to reboot the machine. The server is a AIX 5.3.
Oh and here is some more information if this helps.
diag -d /dev/rmt0
yields cannot find device.
however
lscfg | grep rmt0
gives the following output.
# lscfg | grep rmt0
+ rmt0 U787A.001.DPM05D5-P1-T10-L0-L0 LVD SCSI 4mm Tape Drive (36000 MB)
#
So my questions is does anyone have any other suggestions besides rebooting this machine?