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Re: [Networker] wrong tape capacitiy displayed

2005-02-22 11:12:31
Subject: Re: [Networker] wrong tape capacitiy displayed
From: Darren Dunham <ddunham AT TAOS DOT COM>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 08:11:42 -0800
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> we are running Networker 7.1.2 Build 325 on Solaris 9.
> We have a storage node, same Networker version, on a Solaris 8 machine with
> an Exabyte library with two Mammoth2-drives attached.
> 
> The device capacity for a Mammoth2-drive should be displayed as 60GB but
> what I'm experiencing is a kind of random thing: After labeling all tapes
> in the library (using both devices), mminfo looks like that:
> 
>  volume        pool           capacity
> CL000001       clone             40 GB
> CL000002       clone             40 GB
> CL000003       clone             60 GB
> CL000004       clone             40 GB
> CL000005       clone             60 GB

Each "device" should have a "volume default capacity".  What are yours?

# nsradmin
nsradmin> show volume default capacity
nsradmin> print type:nsr device

[.....]

> Notice that there are four different capacities displayed!
> 
> I tried setting NSR_DEV_DEFAULT_CAPACITY_8MM_MAMMOTH_2=60GB on both server
> and storage node and restarting networker. I am getting a message on
> startup that this setting is ok, but when labeling a tape, the displayed
> capacity is again randomly wrong.

I don't know what that setting is for.

> I tried erasing a tape via Exabyte's MammothTool so that any existing tape
> label would be deleted and then again labeling the tape. No effect.

A 'capacity' is just a number that networker assigns to a tape.  Nothing
about the physical tape will affect it.


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Darren Dunham                                           ddunham AT taos DOT com
Senior Technical Consultant         TAOS            http://www.taos.com/
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