Troubleshooting tape drives, Checking tape status – Sun Microsystems Sun Fire V880 User Manual

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Troubleshooting

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Avaya CMS Sun Fire V880/V890 Installation, Maintenance, and Troubleshooting

May 2006

Troubleshooting tape drives

Use the following procedures to troubleshoot tape drives:

Checking tape status

Reassigning device instance numbers for tape devices

on page 192

Checking tape status

For many procedures, you must identify what tape drive, by device path, you will use for the
procedure. Tape drives are assigned to particular device paths, usually one of the following:

/dev/rmt/0

/dev/rmt/0c

/dev/rmt/1

/dev/rmt/1c

Note:

Note:

The letter c at the end of the device name indicates that the tape device can
operate in compressed mode. Avaya recommends that you use compressed
mode at all times.

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