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System Administration Guide: Devices and File Systems Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 Information Library |
1. Managing Removable Media (Overview/Tasks)
2. Writing CDs and DVDs (Tasks)
4. Dynamically Configuring Devices (Tasks)
5. Managing USB Devices (Tasks)
6. Using InfiniBand Devices (Overview/Tasks)
9. Administering Disks (Tasks)
10. SPARC: Setting Up Disks (Tasks)
11. x86: Setting Up Disks (Tasks)
12. Configuring Oracle Solaris iSCSI Targets (Tasks)
13. The format Utility (Reference)
14. Managing File Systems (Overview)
15. Creating and Mounting File Systems (Tasks)
16. Configuring Additional Swap Space (Tasks)
17. Checking UFS File System Consistency (Tasks)
18. UFS File System (Reference)
19. Backing Up and Restoring UFS File Systems (Overview/Tasks)
20. Using UFS Snapshots (Tasks)
21. Copying Files and File Systems (Tasks)
22. Managing Tape Drives (Tasks)
Specifying the Rewind Option for a Tape Drive
Specifying Different Densities for a Tape Drive
How to Display Tape Drive Status
Guidelines for Drive Maintenance and Media Handling
If errors occur when a tape is being read, you can retension the tape, clean the tape drive, and then try again.
Retension a magnetic tape cartridge with the mt command.
For example:
$ mt -f /dev/rmt/1 retension $
Note - Do not retension non-QIC tape drives.
To rewind a magnetic tape cartridge, use the mt command.
For example:
$ mt -f /dev/rmt/1 rewind $