tape drive problem

Vu Pham vu at sivell.com
Sat May 31 13:20:53 PDT 2008


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 ?

Thanks,

Vu



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