Thanks to:
Hellebo Knut <Knut.Hellebo_at_nho.hydro.com>
"Sheila Hollenbaugh" <shollen_at_valhalla.cs.wright.edu>
Kurt Carlson <SXKAC_at_orca.alaska.edu>
The answer was incredibly simple.
Stick the tapes that it thinks are in the jukebox [but aren't!] into the
jukebox. Inventory. Change the tapes. Inventory again.
Violets! 7 tapes in the jukebox again.
e.
:)
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Date: Mon, 9 Sep 1996 17:01:14 -0400 (EDT)
From: Esther Filderman <moose+_at_CMU.EDU>
To: alpha-osf-managers_at_ornl.gov
Subject: One more NSR question...
When I run nwadmin, and click on the volumes button, it seems to think
that there's about 12 tapes in the TZ877.
The TZ877, last I checked(*), only holds 7 tapes.
I was on the phone with a Digital person last week about the recover
problems I was having [the person's evaluation of hte problem: "your
tape is bad." Muhahaha! ahem. sorry] and I told them about this. They
told me, "stop NSRD, rename the nsrjb.res file, then restart NSRD, and
it'll rebuild the nsrjb.res file."
Well, it kinda does. But you first have to run jb_config, and all your
info about things like the labels of your tapes, and what tape is next
to be labelled, et al. AUGH!
"nsrjb -C" has the right info. I've tried stopping the software,
restarting it, and then rerunning the index. The nsrjb.res file only
contains the 7 [correct] tapes.
Oops, beg pardon, now it thinks there are 9 tapes in the Jukebox. I
swear it was 12 on Friday. Might anyone know where this extra data is
being kept, and how I can convince it that there are only 7 tapes inside?
Thanks,
Esther
(*) Anything can happen around here. Recently another of our sysadmins
spent so much time trying to fix a 2-CPU 2100 that kept crashing
repeatedly, despite his and Digital's valiant attempts, that in a weekly
meeting he swore he'd traded the machine for some magic beans. He
insisted they crashed less frequently than the 2100. [Eventually it was
discovered that one of the CPU boards was bad :)].
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Esther Filderman moose+_at_cmu.edu
System Mangler Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
Member of the NonSequitur society. Our motto:
"We don't have regular meetings, but isn't blue a nice color?"
Received on Thu Sep 12 1996 - 00:31:39 NZST