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Subject: Re: st0 not ready
To: sue@zip.com.au (Sue Blake)
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 15:01:52 +0930 (CST)
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970728150335.22827A-100000@zipper.zip.com.au> from "Sue Blake" at Jul 28, 97 03:09:11 pm
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Sue Blake writes:
>
> This looks like another harmless message, I guess it wants a tape.
> Any other way to hush it?
>
> st0(bt0:4:0) NOT READY csi:0,0,40,0

Well, it would make sense to find out what was asking for the tape.
You could always rename the tape device, but that's a bit of a kludge.

Greg