External tape drive DAT 72 problem

Hi all,
I have solaris 10 sparc running and working very well
but i have problem with external SCSI tape drive DAT 72 problem
it seems to me the tape drive is manufactured by SUN microsystems
when i ran ls -l /dev/rmt/0
it reveals the following output
bash-3.00# mt -f /dev/rmt/0 status
/dev/rmt/0: No such file or directorywhen i ran ls -l
it reveals the following output
ls -l /dev/rmt/0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 43 Sep 20 2006 /dev/rmt/0 -> ../../devices/pci@8,600000/scsi@1,1/st@3,0:it seems to me everything is okay
SCSI cable is connected properly to Tape device and to server as well
the tape has SCSI termination dongle as well and connected properly to Tape device as well
any ideas would be a great assist
Thanks in advance
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first of all thanks for your reply
it's not newly installed and i'm not sure if it was working or not because i'm successor for an administrator who left job to new
by the way i rebooted to OBP multiple in hope that Solaris search for new peripherals and configure the one's it recognises.
times with no luck
anyways i ran prtconf bash-3.00# prtconf
System Configuration: Sun Microsystems sun4u
Memory size: 8192 Megabytes
System Peripherals (Software Nodes):
SUNW,Sun-Fire-280R
    scsi_vhci, instance #0
    packages (driver not attached)
        SUNW,builtin-drivers (driver not attached)
        deblocker (driver not attached)
        disk-label (driver not attached)
        terminal-emulator (driver not attached)
        SUNW,debug (driver not attached)
        dropins (driver not attached)
        kbd-translator (driver not attached)
        obp-tftp (driver not attached)
        SUNW,i2c-ram-device (driver not attached)
        SUNW,fru-device (driver not attached)
        ufs-file-system (driver not attached)
        hsfs-file-system (driver not attached)
    chosen (driver not attached)
    openprom (driver not attached)
        client-services (driver not attached)
    options, instance #0
    aliases (driver not attached)
    memory (driver not attached)
    virtual-memory (driver not attached)
    SUNW,UltraSPARC-III+ (driver not attached)
    memory-controller, instance #0
    SUNW,UltraSPARC-III+ (driver not attached)
    memory-controller, instance #1
    pci, instance #0
        ebus, instance #0
            flashprom (driver not attached)
            i2c, instance #0
                nvram, instance #0
                idprom (driver not attached)
                dimm-fru, instance #1
                dimm-fru, instance #2
                dimm-fru, instance #3
                dimm-fru, instance #4
                dimm-fru, instance #5
                dimm-fru, instance #6
                dimm-fru, instance #7
                dimm-fru, instance #8
            bbc (driver not attached)
            power (driver not attached)
            i2c, instance #1
                cpu-fru, instance #9
                temperature, instance #0
                cpu-fru, instance #10
                temperature, instance #1
                fan-control, instance #0
                motherboard-fru, instance #11
                ioexp, instance #0
                ioexp, instance #1
                ioexp, instance #2
                fcal-backplane, instance #12
                remote-system-console, instance #13
                power-distribution-board, instance #14
                power-supply, instance #15
                power-supply, instance #16
                rscrtc (driver not attached)
            beep, instance #0
            rtc, instance #0
            gpio, instance #0
            pmc, instance #0
            parallel, instance #0
            rsc-control, instance #0
            rsc-console, instance #1
            serial, instance #0
        network, instance #0
        usb, instance #0
            mouse, instance #3
            keyboard, instance #2
        scsi, instance #0
            disk (driver not attached)
            tape (driver not attached)
            sd, instance #6
        scsi, instance #1
            disk (driver not attached)
            tape (driver not attached)
        SUNW,XVR-100, instance #0
    pci, instance #1
        SUNW,qlc, instance #0
            fp (driver not attached)
                disk (driver not attached)
            fp, instance #1
                ssd, instance #1
                ssd, instance #0
        scsi, instance #2
            disk (driver not attached)
            tape (driver not attached)
            st, instance #18
        scsi, instance #3
            disk (driver not attached)
            tape (driver not attached)
            sd, instance #1 (driver not attached)
            sd, instance #2 (driver not attached)
            sd, instance #3 (driver not attached)
            sd, instance #4 (driver not attached)
            sd, instance #5 (driver not attached)
            sd, instance #7 (driver not attached)
            sd, instance #8 (driver not attached)
            sd, instance #9 (driver not attached)
            sd, instance #10 (driver not attached)
            sd, instance #11 (driver not attached)
            sd, instance #12 (driver not attached)
            sd, instance #13 (driver not attached)
            sd, instance #14 (driver not attached)
            sd, instance #15 (driver not attached)
            sd, instance #16 (driver not attached)
            st, instance #0 (driver not attached)
            st, instance #1 (driver not attached)
            st, instance #2 (driver not attached)
            st, instance #3 (driver not attached)
            st, instance #4 (driver not attached)
            st, instance #5 (driver not attached)
            ses, instance #0 (driver not attached)
            ses, instance #1 (driver not attached)
            ses, instance #2 (driver not attached)
            ses, instance #3 (driver not attached)
            ses, instance #4 (driver not attached)
            ses, instance #5 (driver not attached)
            ses, instance #6 (driver not attached)
            ses, instance #7 (driver not attached)
            ses, instance #8 (driver not attached)
            ses, instance #9 (driver not attached)
            ses, instance #10 (driver not attached)
            ses, instance #11 (driver not attached)
            ses, instance #12 (driver not attached)
            ses, instance #13 (driver not attached)
            ses, instance #14 (driver not attached)
            ses, instance #15 (driver not attached)
    ramdisk-root, instance #0
    os-io (driver not attached)
    iscsi, instance #0
    pseudo, instance #0
bash-3.00#any further idea

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