Tape error after crash and reboot

[edkale]

Whenever the server with attached scsi tape hangs on shutdown when it comes back up the tape is not accessible.
I get "/dev/rct0: cannot create". If I reboot cleanly it clears up. Is there any way to enable the tape w/o rebooting?

Thanks,
Ed

 

[edkale]

I found the answer to my question on A.P. Lawrence.

"it can also just be that you have accidentally or otherwise installed Arcserve.

By default, Arcserve claims the tape device for it's own. If Arcserve is what you intend to use for backups, that's great. Otherwise, you'll need to disable it, temporarily or permanently.

To disable it permanently, you'll need to remove or edit (by adding an exit 0 at the beginning of the file) the /etc/rc2.d/S69ARCserve. To stop the server temporarily (for example, because you want to do a simple cpio backup or restore) use astop. It shouldn't be a big surprise to learn that astart will start it up again.

You can also edit /usr/lib/ARCserve/tapesvr.cfg and remove the semicolon before NO_DEVICE_LOCKING - doing this lets ARCserve run but prevents it from taking control of the tape."
I just need to stop the ARCserver by executing astop.