On Sun, 21 Jul 2002, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Sunday 21 July 2002 02:44, Mitch Collinsworth wrote: > >You asked what amanda does with changers. I believe when amdump > > completes the tape is rewound but not ejected. > > Its not even rewound here Mitch. Since amanda uses the > non-rewinding device, the only time a rewind command is issued is > when it wants to verify its got the right tape to write to. amcheck > does this, and amdump does at startup, but not again. Sorry. I should be more careful about what I believe at 2:30 AM. > >I've used a number of different tape types and not seen any > > problem that could be traced to leaving a tape in a drive. But > > Exabyte is a drive I've had very little experience with. > > I can verify that too, I've had zilch trouble from leaving the tape > in the drive, using a Seagate 4586np changer with a 4 tape > magazine. FWIW, once one of these changers is loaded, I found that > an 'mt -f /dev/nst0 rewoffl' will in fact cause it to load the next > tape after that one has been rejected. Interesting. I've seen different behavior from different changers, but I haven't seen this. Is this in "gravity mode"? -Mitch
