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[Veritas-bu] Stuck tapes survey

2006-09-29 09:11:33
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Stuck tapes survey
From: jpiszcz at lucidpixels.com (Justin Piszcz)
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 09:11:33 -0400 (EDT)
Paul, using robtest you should be able to unmount a tape.

1) run robtest
2) type: unload d1
3) type: m d1 s50

to move the tape in d1 to slot 50 (assuming s50 wsa empty)

Should work, I would not use the mt commands unless the robtest cmds fail.

Justin.

On Fri, 29 Sep 2006, Paul Keating wrote:

> we have the library web console for out STK L700's in production, and
> our SL500 in the lab.
> I've tried many times to unload a drive with it, though I've never been
> able to get it to actually unload/unmount.
>
> most times I use robtest.....if I can't get it out with robtest, I'll do
> a "mt -f /dev/rmt/#cbn rewoffl".
> if that doesn't work, like I occasionally get a "device name does not
> exist", then I'll issue the same command from another server zoned to
> the same drive, (a DR box, for example).
>
> If none of that works, I will press the unload button on the
> drive......that works 99.9% of the time, but then sometimes the drive
> disappears from one or more servers, untill I power cycle the drive.
>
> Paul
>
>
> -- 
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> [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Hindle,
> Greg
>       Sent: September 29, 2006 8:29 AM
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>       Subject: [Veritas-bu] Stuck tapes survey
>
>
>
>       I am just curious how many of you remotely handle tapes that get
> stuck in a drive. Job fails, or the drive goes down etc. I'm sure most
> use robtest but was wondering if any other methods are used.
>
>
>       Greg
>
>