Alec-
Thanks, that seemed to do the trick - appreciate it.
Cheers,
John
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 5:49 PM, John Brekelbaum <jbrekelbaum AT gmail DOT com>
wrote:
> Alec-
> Thanks. I will try it. Mine was set to 0 which means it was
> disabled. I will post results.
> -John
>
> On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 3:57 PM, Anacreo <anacreo AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
>> I'm pretty sure its the "Idle device timeout" that we set on our jukeboxes
>> to clear the media out of the drive, and we did this to ensure that the
>> shared NDMP drives are available as soon as possible. Specifically I
>> remember it being the one option that was in minutes not seconds.
>> I'd give the "Idle device timeout" and see if that helps your situation.
>> Alec
>>
>> On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 3:48 PM, John Brekelbaum <jbrekelbaum AT gmail DOT
>> com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Alec-
>>> Here are the option from the timers tab, I am not sure but they seem
>>> like "pauses" between the actual SCSI commands or something...
>>> Load sleep - Define the number of seconds for a jukebox to sleep after
>>> a load operation.
>>> Unload sleep - Define the number of seconds for a jukebox to sleep
>>> before attempting to unload a given cartridge.
>>> Eject sleep - Define the number of seconds for a jukebox to sleep
>>> after an eject operation.
>>> Deposit timeout - Define the number of seconds for a jukebox to wait
>>> for a slot to be deposited in the mail slot before it timing out.
>>> Withdraw timeout - Define the number of seconds for a jukebox to wait
>>> for a slot to be withdrawn to a mail slot before it times out.
>>> Cleaning delay - Define the number of seconds for a jukebox to sleep
>>> before attempting to unload a cleaning cartridge.
>>> Idle device timeout - The number of minutes before an idle device is
>>> unmounted. This attribute only applies to SmartMedia, Silo, and shared
>>> native jukeboxes with device sharing enabled. A value of zero disables
>>> this feature, volumes will not be unmounted from idle devices.
>>> Port polling period - Define the number of seconds for a jukebox to
>>> wait before polling a mail slot to check for updated status.
>>> Operation lifespan - Minimum length of time (in seconds) that
>>> Operation Status resources are kept after the operations are complete.
>>>
>>> On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Anacreo <anacreo AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > John,
>>> > Try going into the Jukebox properties via NMC and changing the
>>> > "timers" tab. There should be settings like "eject timer" or "idle timer"
>>> > try changing them both to like 5... then the system will eject tapes once
>>> > they're idle for 5 minutes... Or at least that is my understanding.
>>> > Alec
>>> >
>>> > On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 2:44 PM, John Brekelbaum <jbrekelbaum AT gmail
>>> > DOT com>
>>> > wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> I have not had this problem in a while, but had to reconfigure library
>>> >> recently and now having annoying problem again where an NDMP backup
>>> >> will
>>> >> finish and the tape will stay mounted in the drive. Then a regular
>>> >> backup
>>> >> (non NDMP) will request a drive resource and still the NDMP will not
>>> >> eject
>>> >> the tape (like it is "not getting the message"). The previous time I
>>> >> had
>>> >> this problem it was a zoning issue but to my knowledge nothing has
>>> >> changed
>>> >> with zoning, only the juke box reconfig. Does anyone know what causes
>>> >> this
>>> >> frustrating behavior? Thanks.
>>> >> -John
>>> >>
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