I had the same problem before. What I did is to kill the procedure at
command line. Then reset the jukebox. It should be OKay. If you still got
problem, try recyle the power.
Good luck!

Mei

> I just experienced a problem that is somewhat common.  My overnight
> backups hung up for some reason on cloning--the GUI monitor showed that
> clones were occurring, but the jukebox was idle.  My backup groups did
> not complete cloning, and another backup was waiting to start.  I went
> into the jukebox operations gui and did a 'reset'.  This caused both of
> the tapes to rewind and unload just fine, although it gave the error
> "sdlt tape /dev/sdlt1.1.nrvc is reading" at the end.  In the jukebox
> gui, the inventory looks correct, with the drives empty.  I explicitly
> tried doing an inventory as well, but get the error that "All of the
> devices are in use by nsrmmd".  Back in the 'monitor' window of the
> main gui, it still shows the drive mounted for the clone tape, and the
> groups were still supposedly cloning.  I clicked on 'manage groups' and
> did a 'stop' on both groups waiting to clone.  This had the effect of
> canceling the supposedly current cloning job (as I intended).
>
> Well, the above isn't too common, but here's the effect that is:  since
> the gui still thinks the clone tape is mounted, in spite of my reset,
> it tries to rewind the clone tape when I cancel the group.  Actually, I
> think it's just trying to backspace, 'bsf 2', to write and end of tape
> mark or whatever.  It can't rewind the tape since it is not there, so
> it throws an error and marks the tape full (in this case, <1% of
> 200Gb). Luckily, it's not trying to unload the tape (yet), because I'll
> probably need to go to the jukebox and use the front panel to reload
> the tape in order to make Legato happy.  In fact, I just tried
> that--the jukebox inventory doesn't show the tape in the drive, it
> loses it from the slot inventory, and the monitor pages still thinks it
> is in the drive.  I'm going to do a 'nsrjb -HE' at the Unix prompt, and
> then will probably have to kill/restart networker services.
>
> This is on an SGI server (IRIX 6.5.20), Networker 6.1.3, jukebox is a
> Quantum ATL M1500 (20 slots).
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> Martin J. Dellwo
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> mdellwo AT prdus.jnj DOT com / dellwo AT 3dp DOT com
> Systems Administrator, 3DP / PRDUS
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