"Paul T. DAY" wrote:
>
>         You can always do a nsrjb -L -b "pool name" -Y -S "slot number"
> The -Y forces the lable.
>         I must say, however, I've never had no such problems with AIT-2 tapes.

My problem could be specific to our environment (Linux storage node).
To be honest I did not try it on anything other than Linux.
Linux version of Networker has other issues (such as non working
/etc/LGTOuscsi/erase),
so I'd not be surprised if the described problem was just a part of
them.
Anyway, I'd not worry about this much since as I said I found a work
around.
I just use dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/nst0 bs=64k count=100 instead of the
mentioned erase utility.
After that Networker labels new tapes successfully :)


>
> Paul
>
> On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, Yura Pismerov wrote:
>
> > Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 12:05:56 -0400
> > From: Yura Pismerov <ypismerov AT TUCOWS DOT COM>
> > Reply-To: Legato NetWorker discussion <NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT 
> > EDU>,
>      Yura Pismerov <ypismerov AT TUCOWS DOT COM>
> > To: NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> > Subject: Re: [Networker] Auto Meida Management and Storage Nodes?
> >
> > Davina Treiber wrote:
> > >
> > > Yura Pismerov wrote:
> > >
> > > > Are the tapes new ? Brand new or never used with Legato tapes should be
> > > > erased - see /etc/LGTOuscsi/erase (man erase). Otherwise Legato won't
> > > > accept them (deliberately).
> > >
> > > This is wrong. NetWorker doesn't have problems labelling new or
> > > non-NetWorker tapes. I don't know where you got this idea from. Good
> > > thing it's not true, imagine having to manually run erase on hundreds of
> > > tapes before use!
> >
> > >From my experience with AIT-2 tapes.
> > I did not deal with other types of media, but as for AIT-2 Networker
> > refuses (at least in my case) to label brand new tapes. It says
> > "exercise tape" or something like that.
> > Do I miss something ?
> >
> >
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