Hello Lee

If I leave the tape alone and press return, the barcode scanner scans the tape,
then the accessor arm picks it up and puts it back into the library and an error
message saying tha there was already a tape in the mail slot gets outputted.
It's almost as if the robot is checking if the mail slot is occupied after it
has moved the tape to the slot.   I've been pouring through ADIC documentation
but have found nothing to explain the behaviour yet.

Regards,
John I Wang
Sr. Systems Engineer
Steverson Information Professionals

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John,


YES it will prompt you but did you infact take the tape out
or did you just -- (press <RETURN> to continue) --
It always wants to that and in fact in my scripts I usually redirect
input to the command, piping it an <CR> automatically.  I believe that
with your command if you just hit <cr> each time it asks for it the
robot will place the next tape in the next slot.



John_Wang AT enron DOT net wrote:
>
> Hmmm
>
> Curiouser and curiouser.   I left out the -rc1 arguments and this is what
> happened:
> #4 amazon:/ > /usr/openv/volmgr/bin/vmchange -res -m 000057 -mt 8mm -e ;\
> /usr/openv/volmgr/bin/vmchange -res -m 000062 -mt 8mm -e ;\
> /usr/openv/volmgr/bin/vmchange -res -m 000070 -mt 8mm -e
>
>         remove 000057 from mailslot of robot 0 now
>
>         remove 000057 from mailslot of robot 0 now
>         (press <RETURN> to continue)
>
>         remove 000062 from mailslot of robot 0 now
>
>         remove 000062 from mailslot of robot 0 now
>         (press <RETURN> to continue)
>
>         remove 000070 from mailslot of robot 0 now
>
>         remove 000070 from mailslot of robot 0 now
>         (press <RETURN> to continue)
>
> As you can see, it's still prompting me after each tape rather than filling up
> the slots in the mail drawer.   Any ideas?
>
> Regards,
> John I Wang
> Sr. Systems Engineer
> Steverson Information Professionals
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> John,
>
> I think you need to drop the "-rc1 0" part of the command
> You are basically telling vmchange to put each tape in the
> slot.  The robot is smart enough to know that that slot has
> been used and will automatically go to the next one.
>
> Here is the command I use:
>
> $media_type="dlt"
> foreach $media_id (000123 000124 000125 ...)
>
>            vmchange -res -m $media_id -mt $media_type -v OFFSITE -e
>
> end
>
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