Well, the other thing I didn't think about is it could be a timeout since I am not at the device itself most of the time. I say this because I noticed occasionally the drive will clean itself without a request (this is because of the 225m autocleaning tapes). It could be if you load a tape and it decides to do a clean, it's enough to cause tar or whatever program to choke for a sec.
Jerry --- Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 08 October 2002 16:53, Jerry wrote: > >I noticed my Exabyte EZ17 Autoloader needs an mt -f > >/dev/rmt/0 retension every now and then to make it > >happy or it gets i/o errors. They are relatively > new > >tapes and it seems if I haven't picked up one of > the > >tapes with the robot in a week or so, and nothing > has > >been done with it.... it fails unless I retension > it. > > I wonder if this is heat related, as in how hot is > the drive and > robot area when its just sitting there for a week. > Tapes are funny > critters and I've seen a 10 degrees F cooloff make a > lot of > difference. > > >Any ideas? > > > >__________________________________________________ > >Do you Yahoo!? > >Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More > >http://faith.yahoo.com > > -- > Cheers, Gene > AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M > Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M > 99.17% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More http://faith.yahoo.com
