[Veritas-bu] Tape Alert on STK 9840A drives

Hello,
Yes, we do use ACSLS,
Our overall goal was to use Netbackup instead of ACSLS to manage our cleaning
tapes.  We had been using library based cleaning in the past (using ACSLS)
but we want to move to tape alert with netbackup.

On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 02:50:04PM -0500, Greenberg, Katherine A wrote:
> 
> Don't you have to use ACSLS with a powderhorn?
> 
> Also, if it says Tape Alert is not supported, then it's for that
> particular drive. We use IBM 3590 drives and it's not supported there
> either.
> 
> You can suppress those messages by touch'ing
> /usr/openv/volmgr/database/NO_TAPEALERT
> 
> ~Kate
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> [mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Simon,
> John
> Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 2:40 PM
> To: Mike Ekholm; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Tape Alert on STK 9840A drives
> 
> 
> Are you using ACSLS? If so you should let ACSLS handle cleaning.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> [mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu]On Behalf Of Mike 
> Ekholm
> Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 11:41 AM
> To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Tape Alert on STK 9840A drives
> 
> 
> Hello,
> We are attempting to get tape alert working on our
> 9840A drives.  We have disabled robotic cleaning,
> we have set the cleaning interval to 0, we have
> cleaning tapes with cleaning avalable, but yet
> we see error messages in /var/adm/messages
> saying tape alert is not supported:
> ltid[299]: [ID 294711 daemon.notice] Tape Alert not supported on P10D2
> (device 2, /dev/rmt/2cbn)
> 
> Any Ideas?
> 
> STK 9840A drives in a powerhorn, Solaris 8 and NBU 4.5FP5.
> 
>  -Mike Ekholm
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