Sun Microsystems Sun Fire V880 - Manual (Page 191)

Troubleshooting tape drives
Avaya CMS Sun Fire V880/V890 Installation, Maintenance, and Troubleshooting May 2006 191
To determine what device paths are available on your system:
1. Insert a tape into the tape drive.
2. Enter the following commands:
mt -f /dev/rmt/0 status
mt -f /dev/rmt/1 status
If the device path is correct, a message that is similar to the following is displayed:
If the device path is incorrect, a message that is similar to the following is displayed:
If there is no tape in the tape drive, a message that is similar to the following is displayed:
If the tape drive is busy, a message that is similar to the following is displayed:
HP DAT-72 tape drive:
sense key(0x0)= Unit Attention
residual= 0 retries= 0
file no= 0 block no= 0
/dev/rmt/0c: No such file or directory
/dev/rmt/0c: No tape loaded or drive offline
/dev/rmt/0c: Device busy