Re: Tape drive idiocy
From: Bela Lubkin (belal_at_sco.com)
Date: 08/28/03
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Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 03:29:30 GMT To: scomsc@xenitec.ca
Jim Hickinbotham wrote:
> Ok, I've done something stupid or am missing the obvious.
>
> Exchanged a tape drive temporarily in a 5.04 server (Dell poweredge
> 2300). Removed a DAT (scsi) and installed a travan (scsi). Everything
> went fine. But now the drive only works in single user mode. It shows
> up in hwconfig at boot up, but shows offline on tape status. In single
> user, it's fine. Reference to /dev/xct0 gives a permission denied
> error. tar tvf /dev/rStp0 goes to na-na land for quite awhile and
> comes back with a read error (offline).
>
> Permissions seem to be fine, ran mkdev tape in single and in multiuser
> ... same results. What have I forgotten???
Do you have ArcServe installed? I don't know much about it, but I'm
pretty sure that it starts up in the rc scripts going towards multiuser
mode, and it can totally take over a tape drive. It wouldn't surprise
me to find that its behavior varied radically from one drive to another.
>Bela<
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