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  • 1.  detect tape drive

    Posted Tue October 03, 2006 05:42 AM

    Originally posted by: SystemAdmin


    Dear,

    I am using 4mm tape drive to connect AIX 5L server. when i use smitty the check the tape drive. It shown below message. How can i fix it? I have one tape drive connect to the server only but it shown that many tape drive.

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    COMMAND STATUS

    Command: OK stdout: yes stderr: no

    Before command completion, additional instructions may appear below

    rmt0 Defined 10-88-00-6,0 Differential SCSI 4mm Tape Drive
    rmt1 Defined 10-88-00-0,0 Differential SCSI 4mm Tape Drive
    rmt2 Defined 10-88-00-1,0 Differential SCSI 4mm Tape Drive
    rmt3 Defined 10-88-00-2,0 Differential SCSI 4mm Tape Drive
    rmt4 Defined 10-88-00-3,0 Differential SCSI 4mm Tape Drive
    rmt5 Defined 10-88-00-4,0 Differential SCSI 4mm Tape Drive
    rmt6 Available 10-88-00-5,0 Differential SCSI 4mm Tape Drive
    rmt7 Defined 10-88-00-8,0 Differential SCSI 4mm Tape Drive
    rmt8 Defined 10-88-00-9,0 Differential SCSI 4mm Tape Drive
    rmt9 Defined 10-88-00-10,0 Differential SCSI 4mm Tape Drive
    rmt10 Defined 10-88-00-11,0 Differential SCSI 4mm Tape Drive
    rmt11 Defined 10-88-00-12,0 Differential SCSI 4mm Tape Drive
    rmt12 Defined 10-88-00-13,0 Differential SCSI 4mm Tape Drive
    rmt13 Defined 10-88-00-14,0 Differential SCSI 4mm Tape Drive
    rmt14 Defined 10-88-00-15,0 Differential SCSI 4mm Tape Drive
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    TKS
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  • 2.  Re: detect tape drive

    Posted Tue October 03, 2006 06:18 AM

    Originally posted by: andycor


    Hi John,

    as you can see, you only have one tape available (rmt6). To clear out this list, just do the following:

    rmdev -dl rmt0
    rmdev -dl rmt1
    ... also the others tape drives listed (including rmt6).

    Next, perform a cfgmgr and you will only see one tape drive available as rmt0.

    Regards,
    Andres Cordoba.
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