gnome2-2.16.1_2 upgrade vs tape drive

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 00:13 +0000, Stacey Roberts wrote:
> Hello,
> Since upgrading to gnome2-2.16.1_2 yesterday, I've noticed that my tape backup have
> stopped working.
> 
> Checks now reveal that I am no longer able to access the tape device (I've done all the
> usual checks on the drive itself), and this has started happening since I upgraded.
> 
> This is what I'm now seeing:
> 
> # mt stat
> mt: /dev/nsa0: Device busy
> #
> 
> I can see the tape drive okay enough:
> # camcontrol devlist
> <HP C1537A L708>                   at scbus0 target 6 lun 0 (sa0,pass0)
> <SONY CD-ROM CDU5211 YYS7>         at scbus2 target 0 lun 0 (pass1,cd0)
> #
> 
> I've tried brand new tapes, running cleaning (new ones) tapes through the drive,
> rebooting, etc, but I've effectively now no longer got a working tape drive.

Shutdown hald, and see if the problem persists.  If it does, it's not a
problem with GNOME.

Joe

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