[Veritas-bu] Stuck tapes survey

Justin
Would tend to agree - Try telling that to my ADIC :-)

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-----Original Message-----
From: Justin Piszcz [mailto:jpiszcz at lucidpixels.com] 
Sent: 29 September 2006 14:12
To: Paul Keating
Cc: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Stuck tapes survey


Paul, using robtest you should be able to unmount a tape.

1) run robtest
2) type: unload d1
3) type: m d1 s50

to move the tape in d1 to slot 50 (assuming s50 wsa empty)

Should work, I would not use the mt commands unless the robtest cmds fail.

Justin.

On Fri, 29 Sep 2006, Paul Keating wrote:

> we have the library web console for out STK L700's in production, and 
> our SL500 in the lab. I've tried many times to unload a drive with it, 
> though I've never been able to get it to actually unload/unmount.
>
> most times I use robtest.....if I can't get it out with robtest, I'll 
> do a "mt -f /dev/rmt/#cbn rewoffl". if that doesn't work, like I 
> occasionally get a "device name does not exist", then I'll issue the 
> same command from another server zoned to the same drive, (a DR box, 
> for example).
>
> If none of that works, I will press the unload button on the 
> drive......that works 99.9% of the time, but then sometimes the drive 
> disappears from one or more servers, untill I power cycle the drive.
>
> Paul
>
>
> --
>
>       -----Original Message-----
>       From: veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of 
> Hindle, Greg
>       Sent: September 29, 2006 8:29 AM
>       To: NB List Mail
>       Subject: [Veritas-bu] Stuck tapes survey
>
>
>
>       I am just curious how many of you remotely handle tapes that get 
> stuck in a drive. Job fails, or the drive goes down etc. I'm sure most 
> use robtest but was wondering if any other methods are used.
>
>
>       Greg
>
>
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