https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=206297
Bug ID: 206297
Summary: mt - status incorrectly reports "door open" as "device
not configured"
Product: Base System
Version: 10.2-RELEASE
Hardware: Any
OS: Any
Status: New
Severity: Affects Some People
Priority: ---
Component: misc
Assignee: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Reporter: and...@grillet.co.uk
mt -f /dev/sa0 status
- when no tape is loaded, reports "device not configured" when there is no tape
present.
The message "device not configured" appears to suggest that there is a major
hardware or software defect, when "tape not loaded" or "door open" is a
perfectly normal state for a tape drive. I would expect a message like "door
open", "media not present" or "No tape loaded".
This applies to all SCSI LTOx, DDSx and DATx drives, (have tested all
generations of LTO 1 to 4, DDS 2 to 4, and also USB DAT72 drives (I don't have
any other working drives at present to test).
This is a pretty serious defect in terms of consequences: I have tested on
i386, but previously tested on Sparc and Sparc64, and assumed that the SCSI
driver defective on the basis of this message! (So I moved those machines to
OpenBSD, and the i386 machines to Linux).
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