On Tuesday, September 21, 2010 10:20:53 pm Dustin J. Mitchell did opine:

> Gene, this is counterproductive at this point.
> 
> You've named a few things that seem to be wrong, all of which are
> unrelated.  You've changed things between each email, and claimed a
> number of different symptoms.
> 
Only 2 come to mind and the one listed below is the primary one.

> PLEASE: slow down.  Find *one* failure, describe it fully, and track
> it down to its cause, using logfiles if possible.  Be as methodical as
> possible.
> 
> Dustin

One failure?  Nothing later than 3402 will write from the holding disk to 
the tape.

The taper.*.debug log shrinks from 16 or 17k to 794 bytes, and that is the 
one you have already.  From 3411 on, I cannot flush whats in the holding 
disk even when running amflush by hand, amflush exits about 2 or 3 seconds 
after tapping the drive with one read, and one small write, probably the 
status file, and without any further data being added to the taper.debug 
file.

I have 3427 installed for tonights run, with two changes, taper_debug is 
now set to 2 as 9 made a 170+ megabyte taper.*.debug file last night, and 
dumps has moved to a partition with 600Gb more space.

Tonight's run will test my theory.  If it fails, then I back up to 3402 & 
see if I can flush it by hand.  I know I can with 3341.

More after the run.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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