Maybe they can OPT-OUT of the feature, but on a busy site, allowing the customers to access the tape drives, would appear to make good business sense. Particularily when the drives are doing just nothing. /gat
btw, what do u mean each operation. Each run? If funny things happen, maybe they should be addressed. After all, you got all these logs, and status files hanging around. "John R. Jackson" wrote: > > >Is there some reason why the tape is not at least rewind-offlined ... > > Because other users specifically asked for it to be left alone (we had > to remove code that used to rewind after each operation). I assume they > run something else after amdump (for instance) to tack on a little more > data to the tape. > > And in the case of a changer, offlining the drive may cause other things > to happen, such as dropping the stack and loading the next tape, which > might not be what you want. Better that we leave things alone and if > a particular setup needs something different, it's easy for them to do. > > John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
