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System Administration Guide

Examples--Showing the Status of a Magnetic Tape Drive

In the following example, there is no tape in drive /dev/rmt/1.


$ mt -f /dev/rmt/1 status
/dev/rmt/1: no tape loaded or drive offline
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In this example, the status is shown for the tape in drive /dev/rmt/1.


$ mt -f /dev/rmt/1 status
Archive QIC-150 tape drive:
   sense key(0x6)= unit attention   residual= 0   retries= 0
   file no= 0   block no= 0
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