[SLUG] Tape Drive Reset

[Sean Carmody]

I do regular backups to tape on an internal IDE drive using
taper (vers 6.9b). Although it usually behaves OK, every
now and then it spits the dummy. Unfortunately when this
happens, the tape drive decides it's busy (any attempts
to access it with mt, for example, respond with "Device
or resource busy") and taper does into an uninterruptable
sleep (presumably because the tape drive is no longer
responding). Rebooting cures everything, but is pretty
brutal. Does anyone know how to reset the tape drive without
rebooting?

Regards,
Sean.

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