>>>>> On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 10:14:04 -0600, "Lee, Raymond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>>> said:
>
> I've always had a problem with mtx-changer regarding this issue. Even
> when I'm running the SD as root, my tape drives always show "Device
> busy" when I do an 'mt -f /dev/rmt/0cbn status'. The drives are always
> busy while bacula-sd is running, with or without tapes in the drives and
> not performing any backups.
>
> Therefore, I'm always stuck waiting 180 seconds for the timeout when I
> want to load a tape. The tapes load just fine, but the drive won't ever
> settle down and show "ONLINE" ("0x0" in my case) while the SD is
> running. I've changed the timeout to 60 seconds to ease the pain.
>
> This problem affects other parts of Bacula that request the drive
> status. When I first start the SD, I have to wait for the timeout
> period for both drives before I can do anything. Does Bacula put some
> kind of lock or hog resources of the tape drives that prevents showing
> the tape status correctly? When I was running Legato Networker, I was
> always able to do mt -f /dev/rmt/0cbn status while Legato was running
> and the drive was idle.
>
> My setup is:
> Solaris 9
> L25 Autochanger with two SDLT 320 drives
> Bacula 1.38.5
Sorry, I don't know much about autochangers, but it sounds like Bacula is
keeping the drive open. Possibly setting
Always Open = no
for the bacula-sd Device resource will allow mt to work. See the manual.
__Martin
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