Your -IE command should have fixed your inventory. That it didn't is
troubling. I'd do a nsrjb -H, then a nsrjb -I. It should pick up on
the swapped tapes. Perhaps there is a jukebox option that needs to be
enabled for your library?
Robert Maiello
Thomson Healthcare
On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 23:53:13 +0100, Olaf Zaplinski
<o.zaplinski AT BROADNET-MEDIASCAPE DOT DE> wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>this is what I tried today with our Storagetek L700 barcode enabled jukebox:
>
>- shut down Networker
>- swapped two tapes (slot 101 and 102)
>- power cycled the L700, so it scanned all slots and tapes
>- started Networker and did a
> nsrjb -vv -IE
> nsrjb -l <volnameA>
> Networker said: Oops, this is not volnameA, but volnameB
> and ejected volumeA
>
>Why this? I thought that NW asks the (barcode enabled) jukebox when doing an
>-IE, but NW somehow seems to ignore what the jukebox tells. BTW, NW is 6.1.3
>on Redhat 7.3. Can somebody tell me why barcodes seem to be ignored while
>doing an inventory?
>
>The reason for this test: I want to know why NW often says
>
>'box_unload: retry: failed - will retry'
>'box_unload: retry: sleeping 30'
>
>when trying to 'nsrjb -u <volume_that's_not_busy_and_not_needed_right_now>'
>
>Right now, it told me:
>
>box_unload: retry: sleeping 30
>box_unload: retry: failed. exceeded timeout, aborting
>
>[several minutes later:]
>Jukebox handle being closed at port [email protected]
>About to release Robot arm lock
>slot number 193, Illegal Request, Medium Not Present
>failed unloading drive `/dev/nst0' to slot '193', error '25'
>
>Error: while operating on slot `193': Illegal Request, Medium Not Present
> Tue 23:48:38 Illegal Request, Medium Not Present
>
>nsrjb: Jukebox error: Tue 23:48:38 Illegal Request, Medium Not Present
>
>I just want to find out what is going wrong here...
>
>Regards
>Olaf
>
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