I not that you say that you tried to move a tape with the front panel 
interface, as that is not directly related to Networker and tapes haing in 
mid air so to speak seem to suggest hardware problems wit your box. I myself 
have seen gripper problems like this on Exabyte 18 DLT loaders.

As to the tapes being marked full , I have no direct ideas,

Dit you try removing the JB from networker and reconfiguring it from scratch 
with jbinit, in the past this has helped me with erratic loaders.

Maarten

On Wednesday 26 October 2005 17:27, Matt Temple wrote:
> All,
>
>        Something very strange has happened to my storage node...
> First of all, the node is a 126-slot Qualstar with 3 AIT-4 drives.
> For a number of months, this unit has worked well.   It's attached
> to an HP server running Fedora core 1.   I know this isn't officially
> supported, but has always worked flawlessly on both the server
> and this storage node.
>
>           Something suddenly changed.   First, I had some really
> weird robot-amr failures, including one instance where a tape
> was sitting ejected from one of the drives and there was a tape
> in the gripper arm waiting to be inserted.   I haven't seen that in
> all of the 7 years I've been using Networker.   On at least
> one occasion, I've attempted to move a tape with the library
> front panel and received a message that the source was empty
> (ejected tape) when it clearly was not.   And suddenly, the tapes
> are being marked full with about 80 GB (these are AIT-4) with
> no error messages showing up.  I'm using an Adaptec 39320A
> and the AIC79XX driver.   This is a dual channel card and I've switched
> the two
> cables around -- no change -- just erratic behavior, and occasional time
> when the robot arm doesn't move on program command (it always moves by
> front panel)
>
>             I plan to install a different SCSI card -- 39160 to see if
> there's any
> change.   Any ideas of what's going on?   Does this kind of erratic
> scenario seem familiar to anyone?
>
>                                                             Matt Temple

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