Device-Clean Script for Tapes
The st_clean
device-clean script supports three tape devices:
-
SCSI ¼-inch tape
-
Archive ¼-inch tape
-
Open-reel ½-inch tape
The st_clean
script uses the rewoffl
option to the mt
command to clean up the device. For more information, see the
mt
(1) man page. If the script runs during system boot, the script queries the
device to determine whether the device is online. If the device is online, the script determines
whether the device has media in it. The ¼-inch tape devices that have media in them are
placed in the allocate error state. The allocate error state forces the administrator to manually
clean up the device.
During normal system operation, when the deallocate
command is executed in
interactive mode, the user is prompted to remove the media. Deallocation is delayed until the media
is removed from the device.