I'm not exactly sure what your getting at with your message, however I do come 
across the "ready for writing, idle" message all the time on our DLT8000's.  It 
usually indicates a hung drive and the problem can be fixed by executing the 
"fuser" command i.e   # fuser /dev/rmt/0cbn where 0cbn us your affected device. 
This gives you the pid of the process that has hung the drive and killing that 
process (kill -9 [pid] ) will un-hang it.
We also come across this message on file systems we use for staging, but the 
fuser command returns no pid. In this case we have to resort to re-starting 
networker. We are running 6.1.2 on Solaris 8.

Rob Legate
780-493-2625
780 493-6540 cell

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