Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!timbuk!cs.umn.edu!ub.d.umn.edu!rutgers!apple!portal!cup.portal.com!Bron
From: Bron@cup.portal.com (George Bron Faison)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Cartridge tape drive hangs in open (SCO Unix). HELP!!!
Message-ID: <36447@cup.portal.com>
Date: 2 Dec 90 04:20:28 GMT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Lines: 18

Niklas:

Don't know if this will help or not but you sounded desparate :-{  so I
thought I'd pass it along for what it's worth (reference an Archive SCSI tape
hangiing on open).

I've seen similar problems with Archive drives both SCSI and non-SCSI
under ISC 386/ix 2.x.x and we found a kludgy solution, that was to always
call the Archive "ctape" utility with a rewind call.  Apparently this resets
the board or something, at any rate, since we started doing this we've never
had another cartridge tape hang.  Just do a "ctape rewind" in your shell
script or system(...) if C program and maybe it will help.

I send this idea along for what it's worth and hope that it helps.  This
does seem to be a common problem for Archive cartridge tape drives...maybe
they should fix it, eh?

Bron @ cup.portal.com