[Veritas-bu] media server doesn't release drive.

I'm not sure what level of Solaris you are using or what patch version, but
in 2.6 and some of 2.7 you needed to disable the reserve release
functionality

so setting the st.conf to

DLT7k-data = 1,0x38,0,0x3D639,4,0x82,0x83,0x84,0x85,3;

But before doing that make sure that the line

tape-config-list= is uncommented otherwise the st.conf is worthless.  If is
commented then uncomment it do a reboot -- -r and test it, if still having
problems try the new st.conf entry.

Bob


----- Original Message -----
From: "Xu, Ying" <Ying.Xu AT telecheck DOT com>
To: "Veritas Users NetBackup (E-mail)" <veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT 
edu>
Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 12:23 PM
Subject: [Veritas-bu] media server doesn't release drive.


> Hi,
>
> We are running NBU datacenter 3.4 in SAN/SSO environment (Master server is
a
> E450, we have both unix and NT media servers.  The tape library  is L700
> with 20 tape drives, which are connected to 5 crossroad bridges, which are
> connected to 2 brocade switches).  Occastionally, we have down drives on
> unix side.  We found out that after backups some media servers unmount
tapes
> fine but dont release drives.  The robot will load the tape for next
backup
> to the drive, then find out it doesnt have permission to open the device.
> Fortunately, it doesnt cause backup to fail, it just downs the drive.  Our
> st.conf entry looks like this:
>
> DLT7k-data = 1,0x38,0,0x1D639,4,0x82,0x83,0x84,0x85,3;
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks
>
> Ying
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