SCSI Tape/Library Problem

[Brett I. Holcomb]

I have a Cybernetics tape library (SCSI) with tape drive (also SCSI).  I'm attempting to test it with simple commands like tar -cvf /dev/tape0 /somedir.  This gives a list of files ,then "write 0 of 1024 blocks, error not recoverable"

If i use mt -f /dev/tape0 status I get "operation not permitted).

The tape device (see cat /proc/scsi/scsi below) is id 0 on host 1 while the library is ID 1 on host 1.  The /dev/sg1 is linked (by gentoo) to the /scsi device so I created a link /dev/tape0 to /dev/sg1.

lr-xr-xr-x    1 root     root           36 Jan 14 10:01 /dev/sg1 ->scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/generic

Why does mt tell me the operation is not allowed?  The /scsi entries have the correct permissions.  I'm doing this as root - any ideas?
This system is using the devfs file system. 

For  /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0
crwxrwxrwx    1 brett    root      21,   1 Dec 31  1969 generic

For /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target1/lun0
crw-rw----    1 brett    root      21,   2 Dec 31  1969 generic


Here's /proc/scsi/scsi

bash-2.05b$ cat /proc/scsi/scsi
Attached devices: 
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
  Vendor: ADAPTEC  Model: RAID-5           Rev: 370F
  Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
  Vendor: EXABYTE  Model: Mammoth2         Rev: v04b
  Type:   Sequential-Access                ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00
  Vendor: SPECTRA  Model: 215              Rev: 1008
  Type:   Medium Changer                   ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 04 Lun: 00
  Vendor: MATSHITA Model: DVD-RAM LF-D200  Rev: A120
  Type:   CD-ROM                           ANSI SCSI revision: 04