> My networker install seems to get confused about whether there is a tape
> in the drive.
> 
> My situation, which I've experienced many times before, is that for one
> reason or another I've had to force a shutdown of the networker daemon.
> Then I manually empty the drives and restart the daemon. When it comes
> back up, nwadmin doesn't show any tapes in the drives. However if I run
> "nsrjb -H" or "nsrjb -I", networker tries to unload one or more of the
> drives. This fails since there is no tape in the drive, but I have to
> sit through 10 minutes or so of:
> media info: unload retry for jukebox 'tls5433' failed - will retry
> again"
> media info: unload retry for jukebox 'tls5433' sleeping 30 seconds"
> 
> Is there anyway I can avoid this? Or at least is there a way I can
> decrease the number of times it retries unloading a tape that is not
> there?

It sounds like you're confusing it by unloading the tapes "behind its
back". 

Is there some reason you need to unload them while Networker is down?  
-- 
Darren Dunham                                           ddunham AT taos DOT com
Senior Technical Consultant         TAOS            http://www.taos.com/
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