Ok I must of scared everyone away, but I have an update that might make this more clear.
I removed the aj029a drive from the MSL6000 to investigate using HP LTT tools in a windows environment. I went through all the tests no problem, and then thirty minutes later with only forty seconds left in the test, HP LTT tools hung "not responding" while the tape was rewinding. I waited for a while (ten minutes) for the program to resume but then I realized what was happening. The tape drive was doing the same thing in the windows environment it had been doing with Bacula in Linux. It just drops off the radar while rewinding, and disappears from the device manager! In linux it's the same then I must use a script to rescan the scsi bus. This is why tapes were getting stuck in the MSL600 tape library using Bacula. Do these drives get too hot while rewinding then shut off as a safety mechanism? Bad caps? (http://postimg.org/image/txb2zuizn/) So why would a HP 1840 LTO4 drive work fine with reading and writing processes but then just die during a rewind each time?? Is it something I can doctor or should I chuck the unit and get a new one? Someone has just offered me a new #PD093G#804 unit for 400$ so I'm thinking of just taking that to avoid this mess. +---------------------------------------------------------------------- |This was sent by jsta...@cfdlab.mcgill.ca via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Want fast and easy access to all the code in your enterprise? Index and search up to 200,000 lines of code with a free copy of Black Duck Code Sight - the same software that powers the world's largest code search on Ohloh, the Black Duck Open Hub! Try it now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bds _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
