Networker

[Networker] Unloading drives that are not loaded

2006-01-26 12:20:45
Subject: [Networker] Unloading drives that are not loaded
From: "Thomas, Adam (NIH/NIMH) [E]" <adamt AT NIH DOT GOV>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 10:25:33 -0500
My networker install seems to get confused about whether there is a tape
in the drive.

My situation, which I've experienced many times before, is that for one
reason or another I've had to force a shutdown of the networker daemon.
Then I manually empty the drives and restart the daemon. When it comes
back up, nwadmin doesn't show any tapes in the drives. However if I run
"nsrjb -H" or "nsrjb -I", networker tries to unload one or more of the
drives. This fails since there is no tape in the drive, but I have to
sit through 10 minutes or so of:
media info: unload retry for jukebox 'tls5433' failed - will retry
again"
media info: unload retry for jukebox 'tls5433' sleeping 30 seconds"

Is there anyway I can avoid this? Or at least is there a way I can
decrease the number of times it retries unloading a tape that is not
there?

This is Networker 7.2 on Redhat Enterprise Linux 3 server. The library
is a scsi-atached qualstar TLS5433 with 2 SAIT tape drives.


Thanks,
-Adam Thomas

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