Re: [Networker] Tape drive says "monitoring"?

Hello,
Look into Timer Values for the Jukebox, there may be adjustments that can 
be made if you are reaching that value. I am hopeful, that you can keep 
the Auto Media M on with the new values.
HTH



"Cox, Shawn" <Shawn.Cox AT pcca DOT com> 
02/25/2008 02:38 PM

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It's not an error per se.  It's just that for some reason manually working 
with media via the device when Auto Media Management is on gives this 
message.  I seem to recall that I can work with the device by giving it a 
longer period of time(like 90-120 seconds) between issued commands when 
AMM is on.  But in my case I pre label tapes for certain backups and so in 
order to speed up the process I temporarily disable AMM.  It's a little 
disheartening to hear that this issue is still present in v7.4 though...
 
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Hello, 
You should investigate the error, setting auto media off, could jeopardize 
your  backup routine , i do not recall having to do this intervention for 
reading\writing\scanning a tape. 
HTH 


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I get that message when attempting to work with tapes when the device has 
"Auto Media Management" set to Yes.  I set it to No temporarily, do what I 
need to do and then set it back.
--Shawn

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Subject: [Networker] Tape drive says "monitoring"?

I have a Win2003 server, running NW 7.4 SP1, with a single LTO-4 tape 
drive. NW is showing the drive as "monitoring". My backup job won't run, 
claiming that I need to label a different tape (I got the dread "too many 
open files in system", for which no one has ever seemed to find an answer 
for). Problem is, I can't seem to re-label the current tape, as it says 
that it is "monitoring", whatever that means. And I have no other spares 
at that site, since the order for more tapes doesn't come in until later 
this week.


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Michael Leone
Network Administrator, ISM
Philadelphia Housing Authority
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Philadelphia, PA 19145
Tel:  215-684-4180
Cell: 215-252-0143
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