User`s guide

Chapter 1 Installation 5
A correct response would resemble:
Other tape drive on the first line of the output indicates that the tape drive
is correctly recognized. If one of the following error messages is displayed,
troubleshoot as follows:
■ No tape loaded or drive offline indicates there is no cartridge in the
drive or that the cartridge is not yet loaded. Install a cartridge or wait for the
cartridge load to complete and then retry the mt status command.
■ No such file or directory indicates there is no tape drive attached to
that rmt (remote) number. Try another remote number.
■ SCSI tape drive indicates the st.conf entry is incorrect. You must edit the
st.conf file (see
APPENDIX A) and reboot.
The Tape In Use LED should be lit, signifying that the drive is ready for use. Go to
Chapter 2.
Note – If the tape drive does not complete POST, or if the right or left side LEDs
blink repeatedly, go to “Troubleshooting” on page 6.
#mt -f /dev/rmt/3 status
Other tape drive:
___sense key (0x0)= No Additional Sense residual= 0 retries= 0
___file no= 0 block no= 0
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