Re: [Bacula-users] Does Bacula issue the Prevent Media Removal command?

On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 9:49 AM, John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com> wrote:

> Someone mentioned that changing "Always open" to "no" could help, but that
> kind of scares me. I'd like the protection of preventing removal, as long a
> Bacula can re-enable it when it needs to change tapes.
> I've had multiple drives changed out, and have updated the firmware on the
> drives and library a number of times in the last couple of years to try and
> fix this problem, but non of the fixes it, so I think it's either something
> Bacula or the kernel/mtx is doing.
>

What happens to me is that it is possible to get in a state where the
robot will not remove tapes from one or both drived. I can eject the
tape from the drive but when mtx or the move commands on the changer
itself both fail. I have been able to reset this situation by stopping
bacula-sd then unload the st and scsi card module then reenabling both
and restarting bacula-sd.

John

I can't get the drive to eject at all, I can get the drive to seek and rewind, but not eject either through mt, mtx or the library controls. I�usually�have to�reboot�the library once or twice and sometimes restart bacula-sd. It's pretty�frustrating, I'd like to get to the bottom of it. Since I only roll to tape once a week, it usually takes a couple of weeks for the problem to show up.

Robert LeBlanc
Life Sciences & Undergraduate Education Computer Support
Brigham Young University

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