I'm sure you've checked this, but I get tapes that go into readonly mode when they get a write error. Most of the time, I can just make the tape readwrite again, and it goes on it's merry way.
Andy Carlson |\ _,,,---,,_ Senior Technical Specialist ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ BJC Health Care |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' St. Louis, Missouri '---''(_/--' `-'\_) Cat Pics: http://andyc.dyndns.org/animal.html On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Roger Deschner wrote: > I have a non-collocated sequential (tape) storage pool. Why should there > ever be more than one tape in Filling status? I have four. Why can't it > fill one up and then start another? These are Super-DLT tapes, so each > one means something - 200gb compressed. > > I understand why I have lots of Filling tapes in a collocated tape pool > - that's the whole idea of collocation. But this is happening in a > non-collocated tape pool. > > Roger Deschner University of Illinois at Chicago [EMAIL PROTECTED] > == "Sometimes it pays to stay in bed on Monday, rather than spending === > ===== the rest of the week debugging Monday's code." -Dan Salomon ====== >
