HELP - things are going badly wrong!

[HCART at vax.oxford.ac.UK]

    Can anyone give advice about a couple of (indirectly) related
problems?

1. The printer status file /usr/spool/lp/pstatus has accidentally
   been removed. What utility creates this? Now the system reports
   that my printer has 'disappeared' Creating an empty file with the
   appropriate name does not help. What should I do?

2. Don't say 'get the old pstatus off tape', because when I tried to
   do that, I got the message /dev/rmt2 no such device. I don't seem
   to be able to access the tape drive. (aaah!) I ran MAKEDEV and checked
   that the files /dev/rmt1-4 are present and readable, but I still
   can't read the tape. I am sure I am doing something stupid, but when
   you are a programmer, not a UNIX man that happens sometimes...

   I am running an Iris 3130. All information gratefully received.

Hugh Cartwright.