On 04/03/11, Alan Brown (ajb2 AT mssl.ucl.ac DOT uk) wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Mar 2011, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote:
> 
> > I've noticed the following error with a new tape library.
> > While moving the tape with mtx the web gui shows the move as succeeded,
> > but then moves to show it as 'calibrating'. When it does this, mtx
> > reports the error below. Has anyone notice this, and is there anything
> > to be done?
> 
> I'm experiencing it right now, thanks to a tachometer failure in my
> library.
> 
> There's nothing which can be done on the bacula side.
> 
> The best thing to do is shut down bacula and run a full recalibration
> routine on the library so it relearns the exact offsets for each
> slot/drive. How to do this is different for every library maker and it's
> likely to take quite a while, depending how many slots you have.

Thanks for this advice, Alan. It appears that the drive has been
recalibrating due to the fact that it is "new" (in fact, refurbished).
It appears to have settled down now.

I'll add this to our notes of "things that can go wrong".

Thanks again,
Rory

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Rory Campbell-Lange
rory AT campbell-lange DOT net

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