How to force a bus reset?

[Mike Bilow]

Osma Ahvenlampi wrote in a message to Mike Bilow:

 OA> Apparently as an end-of-tape is detected, the drive
 OA> goes crazy and any command sent to it (save for the status
 OA> command issued by 'mt status') will result in an error.

Try to set the drive to use a fixed block size ("mt setblk 512") instead of a
variable block size before reading or writing the tape.

 OA> I can't even begin to try to figure this one out. But if I
 OA> knew how to  force a device/bus reset, I might see if the
 OA> drive recovers.. 

What other devices, such as hard drives, are on this SCSI bus?
 
-- Mike



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