Hello Martin,

It's a Dell L500 and does not auto rewind. We have another 5 identical ones in 
production but they are running an older version of Bacula. This seems to be 
new to us with Bacula 5.0.3.

Thanks for the reply.

James


On 2011-07-07, at 4:28 AM, Martin Simmons wrote:

>>>>>> On Wed, 6 Jul 2011 08:29:46 -0600, James Woodward said:
>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I've tried searching around a bit but I can't seem to find an answer as to
>> what might cause this problem. I have qutie a few tapes that have been
>> marked in error due to Invalid Tape position. I've listed the Invalid tape
>> position errors as well as detail about one of the affected volumes. Has
>> anyone else encountered this or have any idea's as to why it might be
>> happening? For the life of me I can't figure out what the Expected 0 portion
>> refers to. I thought it might refer to volfiles but those numbers don't
>> always match either.
>> ...
>> Invalid Tape Position Errors
>> # grep -i "invalid tape position" log
>> 11-Mar 18:01 esqb6-sd JobId 196: Error: Invalid tape position on volume 
>> "090137" on device "Drive-2" (/dev/sa2). Expected 0, got 20
> 
> Is /dev/sa2 an auto-rewinding device?  Bacula must use a no-rewinding device
> (normally called /dev/nsa2 on BSD).
> 
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