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1. Hi,

   Is there any commnad to find – how many tapes in a tape drive.

   Regards
   Divakar

   1. using tools we can identify the no of free tapes are available in drive.

2. I want to configure a Dell RD1000 tape drive on
   solaris10 server and I do the following:

   1-First I found the drive name by using command:
   #iostat -En
   and this is the output:

   c2t0d0 Soft Errors: 1 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0
   Vendor: DELL Product: RD1000 Revision: 0053 Serial No:
   Size: 0.00GB
   Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0
   Illegal Request: 1 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0

   2-I try the mt command on this device as follow:

   #mt -f /dev/dsk/c2t0d0 and the output is :No such device

   when I try #mt -f /dev/dsk/c2t0d0p0 the output is :Device is busy

   3-I try to check which process has locked the Tape drive by using:

   # fuser -u /dev/dsk/c2t0d0p0 I found the process is “Vold”

   4-I stop the volume management process by using:

   # /etc/init.d/volmgt stop

   and i checked again:

   # mt -f /dev/dsk/c2t0d0p0 status

   mt: Inappropriate ioctl for device

   Notes: I used “tapes” command and still “/dev/rmt” empty

   Any respond ASAP will be really appreciated.
   You can respond me on my e-mail: m_aboelgheit@yahoo.com

3. When you insert the tape in the tape drive and execute the below command, output should be like as shown below or else reboot the system using reconfiguration option..

   # reboot -- -r

   OR

   # touch /reconfigure
   # init 6
   # iostat -En

   Outputs:

   c0t0d0          Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0
   Vendor: IBM      Product: DDRS34560SUN4.2G Revision: S98E Serial No: 2V4549
   Size: 4.29GB
   Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0
   Illegal Request: 0 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0
   c0t1d0          Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0
   Vendor: IBM      Product: DDRS34560SUN4.2G Revision: S98E Serial No: 369317
   Size: 4.29GB
   Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0
   Illegal Request: 0 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0
   c0t6d0          Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0
   Vendor: Compaq   Product: 12X CD-ROM DRV   Revision: 3136 Serial No: 11/08
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   Size: 18446744073.71GB
   Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0
   Illegal Request: 0 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0
   rmt/2           Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0
   Vendor: EXABYTE  Product: EXB-8505SMBANSH2 Revision: 0098 Serial No:
   

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