retension on i/o errors

2002-10-08 Thread Jerry
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

Re: retension on i/o errors

2002-10-08 Thread Gene Heskett
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,

Re: retension on i/o errors

2002-10-08 Thread Jerry
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