external SCSI tape drive DAT 72 problem

[foorsa]

Hi all,
I have solaris 10 sparc running and working very well
but i have problem with external SCSI tape drive DAT 72 problem
it seems to me the tape drive is manufactured by SUN microsystems
when i ran ls -l /dev/rmt/0
it reveals the following output


bash-3.00# mt -f /dev/rmt/0 status
/dev/rmt/0: No such file or directorywhen

i ran ls -l
it reveals the following output


ls -l /dev/rmt/0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 43 Sep 20 2006 /dev/rmt/0 -> ../../devices/pci@8,600000/scsi@1,1/st@3,0:

it seems to me everything is okay
SCSI cable is connected properly to Tape device and to server as well
the tape has SCSI termination dongle as well and connected properly to Tape device as well
any ideas would be a great assist
Thanks in advance

 

[foorsa]

sorry for inconvenience
the instance number for external tape is 1 not 0

it works now very fine
bash-3.00# mt -f /dev/rmt/1 status
HP DAT-72 tape drive:
sense key(0x6)= Unit Attention residual= 0 retries= 0
file no= 0 block no= 0
bash-3.00#