John,

I also really like the Scalar, but this is not the first time I've heard 
about this problem between NetBackup and the Scalar 1000.  I wonder if this 
is a problem with NetBackup, or with goofiness associated with the 
Scalar?  I wonder if the 10,000 also has this problem.

I wonder if this problem will exist forever, or if someone at Veritas is 
working with anyone at ADIC to make this problem go away.

At 01:49 PM 9/4/2001 -0500, John_Wang AT enron DOT net wrote:
>The ADIC Scalar 1000 starts off with one cabinet holding 237 slots and 12 
>drives
>(if you use AIT2 technology) and is expandable to four cabinets either 
>with slot
>only or slot and drives cabinets (a maximum of 1,024 slots).   I've got 
>three of
>them and they have worked reasonably well.   One thing I don't like is that
>Netbackup has difficulty ejecting more than one tape at a time on the Scalar
>1000's even though the I/E port holds 18 tapes (Basically the vmchange -e -s
>command doesn't leave the tape in the I/E port after the timeout as it does on
>other changers so the ejection is either one at a time or scripted slot to 
>mail
>slot instead of tape to mail slot).   Another thing that I don't like is that
>the I/E port's slots are fixed in the drawer so you still have to manually 
>pull
>the tapes out of the slots after pulling the drawer out, it would be nice to
>have a magazine that one could pre-load and just swap like the 
>Exabytes.   Other
>than that, it's fast, inexpensive, I've only had to replace the gripper 
>once and
>so far no dropped tapes.

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