not much help, but 

what does 'mt -f /dev/nht0 status' return? 
Have you tried a different tape (i have had tapes go bad)

hth
charles

On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Rick Knebel wrote:

> I am trying to use my atapi tape drive with RedHat 6.2
> 
> If I issue the command  mt -f /dev/nht0 rewind nothing happens
> with the command mt -f /dev/nht0 erase it says input and output error
> the only command that works is retension.


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