My thanks go out to Ric Anderson and Mohammed Tanvir for their replies in dealing with my USB tape drive issue. In the end I resolved it by going onsite, shutting down the machine which thankfully is not live yet anyway. I checked and the internal DAT 72 drive was powered and plugged in to the USB socket. To be sure I switched sockets and then I restarted the computer and ensured it did a boot reconfig. The drive reappeared on the system and /dev/rmt was recreated with all it's devices. mt -f /dev/rmt/0cn status showed the correct output and the tape responded to commands to offline and eject the tape etc. Backups are now running ok so it's all good. Thanks again Regards -- Andrew Bergman Systems Administrator Microlistics Pty Ltd Direct: +61 3 8329 2050 Mobile: +61 411 706 713 Fax: +61 3 9326 7588 e-mail: andrew.bergman@microlistics.com.au -------------------------------------- "It is the way of the world, Baldrick - the abused always kick downwards. I am annoyed, and so I kick the cat... the cat pounces on the mouse, and finally, the mouse bites you on the behind." _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Mon Nov 27 22:08:37 2006
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