On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 9:00 AM, John Drescher <dresche...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm trying to track down the cause of tapes being stuck in our library at > > random times. When a tape is stuck, the library reports that a soft > removal > > error occurred, and all I can think of is that Bacula is sending the > Prevent > > Media Removal command to prevent tapes from being changed out without > it's > > knowledge, but sometimes, it does not issue the Allow Media Removal > command > > correctly to change the tape. This causes the jobs to back up waiting for > a > > tape. We are running Debian Squeeze with 5.0.1. > > Thanks, > > > > I have the same thing on gentoo from time to time with my exabyte > magnum 224 changer. > > John > Someone mentioned that changing "Always open" to "no" could help, but that kind of scares me. I'd like the protection of preventing removal, as long a Bacula can re-enable it when it needs to change tapes. I've had multiple drives changed out, and have updated the firmware on the drives and library a number of times in the last couple of years to try and fix this problem, but non of the fixes it, so I think it's either something Bacula or the kernel/mtx is doing. Robert LeBlanc Life Sciences & Undergraduate Education Computer Support Brigham Young University
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