Just out of curiosity, did you ensure that the drive is not set to
Disabled?  NW will disable the drive if there are too many consecutive
errors.  If you enable the drive and do a "nsrjb -HE" that should grab
the tape from the drive and toss it back into a slot.

Cheers,

Carter Fowler
Hardware Services Technician
The City of London
380 Wellington St. Suite 600
London, Ontario, Canada
N6A 5B5
OF: 519.661.5711
FX: 519.5408
cfowler AT london DOT ca


-----Original Message-----
From: Lenderman, Mark E WRAMC WASH DC
[mailto:Mark.Lenderman AT NA.AMEDD.ARMY DOT MIL] 
Sent: February 17, 2004 2:48 PM
To: NETWORKER AT listmail.temple DOT edu
Subject: Drive Busy error

Hi All,

I have a drive that has been rendered useless since last night's
backups.
This is the error message displayed while the tape was still in the
drive. I
have manually ejected the tape and the drive reports 'busy' when I try
to
mount a tape to it or perform any other operation on the drive. Any
thoughts?

writing, error reading: I/O error

Many thanks,
Mark

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