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Re: Why so many Filling tapes?

2003-02-04 17:12:35
Subject: Re: Why so many Filling tapes?
From: Andy Carlson <andyc AT ANDYC.CARENET DOT ORG>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 08:59:51 -0600
I'm sure you've checked this, but I get tapes that go into readonly mode
when they get a write error.  Most of the time, I can just make the tape
readwrite again, and it goes on it's merry way.


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On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Roger Deschner wrote:

> I have a non-collocated sequential (tape) storage pool. Why should there
> ever be more than one tape in Filling status? I have four. Why can't it
> fill one up and then start another? These are Super-DLT tapes, so each
> one means something - 200gb compressed.
>
> I understand why I have lots of Filling tapes in a collocated tape pool
> - that's the whole idea of collocation. But this is happening in a
> non-collocated tape pool.
>
> Roger Deschner      University of Illinois at Chicago     rogerd AT uic DOT 
> edu
> == "Sometimes it pays to stay in bed on Monday, rather than spending ===
> ===== the rest of the week debugging Monday's code." -Dan Salomon ======
>

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