On Wednesday 01 November 2006 12:09, Stuart Whitby wrote:
> If, as per the previous email, scanner's first response is to say that it's
> not at the start of a tape when it is, physically, at the start of the
> tape, then you have lost data.  NetWorker writes file positions on tape
> regularly which it uses as reference points to confirm its position on tape
> - it doesn't simply rely on the tape driver's positional information as
> that can't be relied on in a shared environment anyway.

Yes, that is clear. I think we have been discussing different things here. My 
comment was to the following statement:

>> I believe that drives with a tape mounted but not being written to when 
a
>> bus reset occurs will show an error with scanner along the lines of
>> expected file number X got file number X+N.

And here the reset will have no effect other than perhaps generating an error 
message about an unexpected filenumber in the log. The data will still be 
intact.

The dangers of top-posting....

Best
Dag

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