tctl tape command

[johndrake]

Hi All,

I am trying to find the command that will unload the tape
from a tape drive. I am using AIX 4.3.3. I have checked the
man page for "tctl" and could not find the command that would unload the tape drive, here. I can unload the tape drive if I
go into "tapeutil". However, this is not useful because I would like to unload the tape drive from a script. If anyone could help, I would greatly appreciate it.

Thank you,

-Joe

 

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tctl offline

 

[tsuba]

Hi,
Just for information, you can use &quot;mt -f <device name> offline&quot; or &quot;mt -f <device name> rewoffl&quot;. The last one forces a rewind to the tape.

HTT