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Re: [Networker] Errors labeling tapes?

2007-12-14 11:23:42
Subject: Re: [Networker] Errors labeling tapes?
From: Steven Weller <sdweller AT SBCGLOBAL DOT NET>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 08:19:15 -0800
SCSI buss reset on a switch or persistent bonding not
set causing the drives to reassign on a reboot or
hardware cycle?
-S
--- MIchael Leone <Michael.Leone AT PHA.PHILA DOT GOV> wrote:

> Here's a new one ... I have some tapes that I've
> been using (i.e., they 
> are already labeled; they've been used in jobs
> before). Today I went to 
> re-label them, because (for some odd reason) the
> tape label doesn't match 
> the bar code. And I got this error:
> 
> >nsrjb -v -L -bPHACLONE -S2  1127153749
> 
> setting verbosity level to `1'
> Info: Loading volume `893287' from slot `2' into
> device `\\.\Tape3'.
> Info: Operation `Verify label' in progress on device
> `\\.\Tape3'
> Info: Cannot read the current volume label `read
> open error: drive status 
> is There is not a tape in the drive'.
> Info: nsrmmgd assumes the volume is unlabeled and
> will write a new label.
> Info: Operation `Label without mount' in progress on
> device `\\.\Tape3'
> Info: Label: `1127153749', pool: `PHACLONE',
> capacity: `<NULL>'.
> Info: Operation `Eject' in progress on device
> `\\.\Tape3'
> Info: Unloading volume `893287' from device
> `\\.\Tape3' to slot 2.
> Error: read open error: drive status is There is not
> a tape in the drive
> 39077:nsrjb: error, Jukebox command terminated with
> errors.
> 
> I love the way it says there's no tape in the drive.
> :-) This tape volume 
> thinks it's 893287; it's supposed to be 1127153749
> (which is the bar 
> code).
> 
> Has anybody seen this type of error before? I have a
> couple tapes where it 
> is showing up. But only a couple ...
> 
> This is not the first tape labeling oddness I've
> seen in NW 7.4 (on 
> Win2003, in my case, with an HP MSL 5052 tape
> library). I saw a post here 
> from some one else who also noticed labeling
> problems.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> -- 
> Michael Leone
> Network Administrator, ISM
> Philadelphia Housing Authority
> 2500 Jackson St
> Philadelphia, PA 19145
> Tel: 215-684-4180
> <mailto:michael.leone AT pha.phila DOT gov>
> 
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