bring up tape drive

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 09:27:30AM -0500, Phillip Qin wrote:
> I have a scsi tape drive forced offline due to the jammed tape (maybe a
> dysfunctional tape drive). Without powering down the server, is there a
> Linux command that can bring up the tape drive so that I can use mt to eject
> the tape? I am running Debian Woody.

The eject button doesn't work?

If the tape is really jammed, perhaps it isn't possible to eject.
Perhaps the drive has to be opened by someone that knows what they are
doing to remove the tape from it.

I don't think you can do anything in software to force it back online.

Len Sorensen
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