[nzlug] /dev/st0 - device or resource busy

[Cliff Pratt]

Scott Newton wrote:
> We currently have a tape device which is completely locked up under
> SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9.3 and no matter what we do it is given
> the error in the subject line.
> 
> I've tried fuser /dev/st0 and kill -15 and kill -9 on the pid of the
> process holding the device. I've also tried sg_reset -b and -d on
> /dev/st0 but all of these give device or resource busy error
> messages.
> 
> Does anyone know of way to reset a scsi tape device without doing a
> reboot?
> 
Have you power cycled the device?

Cheers,

Cliff