tape drive problem

[vu pham]

Bruce Marshall wrote:
> On Saturday 31 May 2008, Vu Pham wrote:
>> My tape drive suddenly reports the following error when I write to it.
>>
>> tar: /dev/st0: Cannot open: Read-only file system
>>
>> What can cause this ? I used a tape cleaner tape to clean it but it does
>> not fix. And the "dirty" LED is not on.
>>
>> It is a DLT1 tape drive.
>>
>> Any idea ?
> 
> If it's anything like the DDS drives I used to use,  it takes a 'cleaning 
> tape' to turn the light off.   There were special tapes made for the cleaning 
> run and they were only good for a specified number of cleans.
> 
> The drive recognized the cleaning tapes and would go into a cleaning process 
> with them.  Took about 30 seconds.

I just tried to clean it again but still in vain. By the way, the "write 
protect" led on the driver is off, and mt reports "write protect on".

I would move the drive to another system to see what's going on.

Vu