We have a quantum P4000 that has autoloading feature: whenever a tape is inserted into the loadport and the tape will be moved from the loadport to the storage bin as soon as the loadport is closed.
I think that's what's expected. With barcodes in use, that should only take a few seconds, except for the new tapes. Does an inventory take a long time for you? No. Not when networker's not in contr
If any tape library I use with NetWorker had an autoloading feature, I would turn it off. Allowing your tape library to change the state of itself seems like a recipe for trouble. If turning off the
Inventorying all the slots does take a long time. That's not my complaint though. What I have been doing is (1) put the tapes in the load ports, (2) use 'nsrjb -d' to load the tapes into availabe slo
Okay, that wasn't at all how I understood your first post. Yes, since depositing the tape is under Networker control, networker does know what slots they went in. So networker does know what slots t