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
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,
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