On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Richard Hitt wrote: > Hi, Jim > > Since Paul's on South African time and I'm here in California, I had a go. > > The UTS Global Tape Subsystem includes the command tapevary(8), used > mainly to vary online a tape drive to the system. So, "tapevary on > 3028" varies drive 3028 online. It causes the UTSG tape driver to > perform an attach, and "tapevary off 3028" performs an unattach. If I > have 3028 varied online to one VM Linux and try to vary it online at > another, the "Drive Assigned Elsewhere" message appears. > > So consider it verified, at least under VM. We had a power outrage, um, > outage, today and besides I see no recognition in our driver's code that
Hmm. Seems to me that zBoxes are dropping like flies;-) I was at an IBM presentation the other day, where they were talking about MTBF of decades. -- Cheers John. Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb
