>The other problem we've had is that we've never 
>been
>able to get the nsrjb -H -E command to work properly with this rascal.
>There have been a few times when it was necessary to make Legato 
>sane
>again after it lost its little brain. Unfortunatley, the command to do
>this simply fails.

hi there George

You did not say which version of Red Hat you were running. I picked up the 
following on p67 under "Limitations in platform support" of the latest Unix 
Release Supplement. This may or may not apply to you.

++++++

The nsrjb -HEv and nsrjb -HHv Commands Do Not Back Up with Red Hat
Linux 7.1 (LGTpa37268)

The reset (nsrjb -HEv) and force eject (nsrjb -HHv) commands do not function 
with
Red Hat Linux 7.1. When either command is executed it runs to completion but 
does
not reset the autochanger, its drives or a eject tape and no error message is 
reported.

Workaround

1. Use the mt -f device name rewoffl command to eject a tape from a drive.
2. Run the nsrjb -HEv command to reset the tape.

++++

this error was added to the notes on 10 July 2002 (as per p25), when 7.1 was 
still the latest supported version of Red Hat, AFAIK. Not sure if this problem 
still persists on later versions, but I have never had a problem running nsrjb 
-HE on any versions between RH 6.2 and 7.3, and our SDLT library has been 
running RH 7.1 for more than a year.

greetings


Riaan van Niekerk
Unix-stelseladministrateur
B.Juris, B.A., RHCE, IBM Certified AIX Sysadmin
ITB Netwerke en Infrastruktuur
Potchefstroomse Universiteit
Tel : (018) 299 2147
Fax: (018) 293 5299

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