On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Stephen Walton wrote:
>Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 10:09:25 -0800 (PST)
>From: Stephen Walton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: amlabel hangs up
>
>On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Olaf Seidel wrote:
>
>I had a roughly similar problem. I found that amlabel put the tape drive
>into a state where I had to power-cycle the drive to allow the system to
>talk to it again if I failed to specify the '-f' switch. All was well if
>I specified '-f'. This was on an HP 735/99 running HP-UX 10.20 with all
>of HP's latest SCSI patches, connected via its narrow single-ended
>interface to an Exabyte 8505XL drive, and Amanda 2.4.2 release. Since all
>of my subsequent Amanda backups to this drive have succeeded without
>incident, I don't think there are any hardware problems.
For what it's worth, I have the same problem with an Eliant 820 (which
seems to refer to itself as an 8505 occasionally.) Occasionally, I'll
insert a tape, and at the first IO attempt the tape goes into an
infinite shoeshine on the tape header. I have to powercycle the whole
system to get control back.
It really sucks. My older 8500 never did this. I think it's the drive,
not the driver. I've sent email to Exebyte's support address several
times and have never gotten an answer from them.
--
Joi Ellis
[EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.visi.com/~gyles19/
