Tape drive out to lunch

[Wombat]

In article <2018 at brl-tgr.ARPA> eichelbe at nadc.ARPA writes:
>	Has anyone on a VAX 11/780 under 4.1 BSD or 4.2 BSD UNIX ever had
>a problem where the system all of a sudden acted like your tape drive no
>longer existed?  I was running a tape job and everything was going along
>fine.  Then all of a sudden, my job bombed.  The tape was not rewound.
>Any "mt" commands met with:
>	/dev/rmt12: No such device or address

A guess:

The tape drive did not get auto-config'd in on your last reboot; it was
probably disconnected from the bus or something when the machine came up,
and so the probes never found it.  You should be able to verify this by
comparing your console listing for this boot with a listing for a boot
where the tape drive was indeed found.  Reconnect the drive and reboot,
and everything should be fine.
-- 
Rich Kulawiec	rsk at pur-ee.uucp rsk at purdue.uucp rsk at purdue-asc.arpa