I have mtx-changer modified for the wait_for_drive to time out after 25 
minutes.  And, yes sometimes it does take a long time to load a tape.  
I'll have to ping Mark Nienberg and see if hes discovered anything since 
he last reported it.  Although in his case, a second mount was successful.

John Drescher wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Brian Debelius
> <bdebelius AT intelesyscorp DOT com> wrote:
>   
>> Yes, it was recycled.
>>
>> 10-Mar 00:01 elkton-dir JobId 3912: Start Backup JobId 3912,
>> Job=Westminster.2009-03-10_00.01.00.20
>> 10-Mar 00:01 elkton-dir JobId 3912: There are no more Jobs associated with
>> Volume "B0000005". Marking it
>> 10-Mar 00:01 elkton-dir JobId 3912: All records pruned from Volume
>> "B0000005"; marking it "Purged"
>> 10-Mar 00:01 elkton-dir JobId 3912: Recycled volume "B0000005"
>> 10-Mar 00:01 elkton-dir JobId 3912: Using Device "VXA-172"
>>
>>     
>
> I asked that because I remember a discussion on list list about
> problems with vxa drives that during the load they can spend some very
> long time recalibrating the tape (or something like that) and if
> bacula read during this time it would have a read error on the first
> block.
>
> John
>   


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