Urgent help needed

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I have configured a SCSI tape drive for SCO Openserver 5.0.6, but when I tried to use the tape command to check the status of the tape drive I got this error:

-# tape -s status
tape: unable to do 'status' command on '/dev/xct0' : Invalid argument

The tape device exist and there is no confilts at all.

Royt has suggested that I need to specify the device which should be /dev/rStp0 for the first SCSI tape drive.

tape -s status /dev/rStp0
but when I exeec that command, this is the output I got:-

# tape -s status /dev/rStp0
tape: can't open '/dev/rStp0': No such device or address

I did check if there is rStp0:-

# ls -l /dev/rStp0
crw-rw-rw- 5 root root 46, 0 Mar 21 10:22 /dev/rStp0


any suggestions?

 

[edfair]

Assuming that 5.0.6 carried forward the scsi tape problems from previous versions. I would remove all SCSI tape from the system , rebuilding the kernel each time. Then would reinstall.
Don't know if that will fix it but for tape problems from 4.0 thru 5.0.5 there have been problems with the scsi default stuff put in from all but tape install. Ed Fair
efair@atlnet.com

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