On Thursday 08 April 2004 15:30, Gene Heskett wrote:
>On Thursday 08 April 2004 12:12, David Wolfskill wrote:
>>It still smells like an off-by-one error in the tape changer
>> program to me.
>
>I'm not quite convinced, read on.
>
>I'm also going to Cc: this back to the list, just in case it rings a
>bell with somebody.
Now I know the server has a tummy ache, this message just now came in,
at 2:30 local time on the 11th. It was posted at 15:30 on the 8th.
>
>In the FWIW category, amcheck does NOT rewind the tape before it
> exits after finding the right tape. In other words, when its done,
> an mt -f /device status report does NOT contain the BOT
> phrase/acronym.
>
>If a rewind is issued at that point, it takes several seconds for mt
>to return to the shell, so the tape is actually being rewound by the
>command.
>
>In my testing earlier today, I'd setup a crontab entry for amanda's
>crontab that ran amcheck at 15,45 of the hour. Very dependably, the
>one at 45 mins failed. The one at 15 past the hour found the tape
>just fine because it had to cycle the magazine and reload the tape,
>which of course rewound it.
>
>Theorizing that the real problem was the fact that amcheck (& amdump
>etc, all are guilty of using the same broken code to search for the
>right tape), somehow had lost its ability to rewind the tape before
>it tried to read the label the first time. So I then put in at
> 30,00 on the hour, a command to use mt to rewind the tape. Its now
> been working flawlessly for about 5 hours. And probably wearing
> out the leader of DailySet1-13. :)
>
>This happened once before, 3 or so years back up the log, and Thomas
>Hepper, who apparently is the chg-scsi guru, fixed then it. But I'm
>beginning to think that somehow, his fixes have become lost. There
>was something wrong with the syntax of the io_ctrl function at the
>time which made the rewind call not work.
>
>I've sent the details to Thomas already, but so far no reply (he has
> a demanding job), just one more spam is left in the inbox. :(
>
>>Peace,
>>david
>
>Peace to you too, as we approach the Easter holiday. Time to
>celebrate. Many Thanks for the reply.
--
Cheers, Gene
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