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Jeremy Billones
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Wed Dec 22, 2004 11:45 pm Post subject:
Auto-Rewind on Exabyte VXA drive? |
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We've gotten an Exabyte VXA autoloader to be hooked into our system
for backups. It appears that after every command issued to the
system, it rewinds the tape. Whether it's a write or an fsf,
it's rewinding to the beginning after each operation, which is
rather annoying.
Is there a configuration setting of some sort that needs to be
set to make it not do that?
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Jeremy Billones
"Excel balances out our desire to throttle that annoying talking paper
clip by being chock-full of useful features."
- Aaron Schatz, footballoutsiders.com |
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Jeremy Billones
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Thu Dec 23, 2004 1:33 am Post subject:
Re: Auto-Rewind on Exabyte VXA drive? |
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In article <10sjg69rg704p41@corp.supernews.com>,
Jeremy Billones <billones@radix.net> wrote:
| Quote: | We've gotten an Exabyte VXA autoloader to be hooked into our system
for backups. It appears that after every command issued to the
system, it rewinds the tape. Whether it's a write or an fsf,
it's rewinding to the beginning after each operation, which is
rather annoying.
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To answer my own question, I was using /dev/st0 rather than /dev/nst0.
*bangs head against keyboard*
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Jeremy Billones
"Excel balances out our desire to throttle that annoying talking paper
clip by being chock-full of useful features."
- Aaron Schatz, footballoutsiders.com |
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Maxim S. Shatskih
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Thu Dec 23, 2004 7:23 pm Post subject:
Re: Auto-Rewind on Exabyte VXA drive? |
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UNIX?
IIRC on UNIXen this behaviour depends on what device name do you open - one
has auto rewind, another has no.
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Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP
StorageCraft Corporation
maxim@storagecraft.com
http://www.storagecraft.com
"Jeremy Billones" <billones@radix.net> wrote in message
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| Quote: | We've gotten an Exabyte VXA autoloader to be hooked into our system
for backups. It appears that after every command issued to the
system, it rewinds the tape. Whether it's a write or an fsf,
it's rewinding to the beginning after each operation, which is
rather annoying.
Is there a configuration setting of some sort that needs to be
set to make it not do that?
--
Jeremy Billones
"Excel balances out our desire to throttle that annoying talking paper
clip by being chock-full of useful features."
- Aaron Schatz, footballoutsiders.com |
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