Define slot 5 as the cleaning tape and it will automatically be skipped. I also suspect that if you just don't have a tape in slot 5 then the taper function will skip the slot when it is hunting for the next tape.
Bill > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Iulian Topliceanu > Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 6:50 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Slot problem > > > Hi, > > I have a Dell PowerVault 120T DLT1 Autoloader (7 slots) using chg-scsi. > Everything works ok till I get to slot 5 which is loaded corectly but the > picker can't eject it properly so the tape remains in the picker and > blocks the autloader. > > My question is: is there a way to tell the autoloader not to use a > specific slot (slot 5 in my case) during the backup process? Or if slot 5 > is empty will it be skipped by default and not used anymore in the backup > process? > > Regards, > Iulian Topliceanu
