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  • 1.  Tape drive error

    Posted Tue April 28, 2009 12:28 PM

    Originally posted by: SystemAdmin


    Hi,

    I am using IBM 3580 Ultrium Tape Drive in IBM P570 AIX5.3 server when i try for system backup using smitty mksysb i am getting the following error.

    0512-017 mksysb: Cannot write to the device /dev/rmt0.
    Either write protected or in use.

    More details:
    bash-3.00# lsdev -Cc tape
    rmt0 Available 0C-08-00-1,0 IBM 3580 Ultrium Tape Drive

    bash-3.00# oslevel -s
    5300-09-01-0847

    HP LTO2 Ultrium
    400 GB2.1 compression
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