My apologies for this summary being LOOOONG overdue. The fix wasn't
implemented until two weeks ago, and I had to make sure it really worked
(ahem).
Original problem: Whenever a tape would fill up during backup, I was never
able to mount a new tape, because the nsrmmd process would never let go of
the tape device. I'd have to kill the NSR daemons and restart them, thus
aborting the backup.
The solution, oddly enough: The firmware revision of my TZ88 DLT drive was
too old. Upgrading the firmware (ask your field support folks for it; mine
had a very hard time getting the tape to actually work once he got the
correct firmware binary) solved this. Even more odd, I no longer have this
problem with my TKZ09 Exabyte tape drive, so the TZ88 must have been really
confusing the SCSI bus or something. The firmware I have loaded now is rev
CF64 according to uerf.
Someone had suggested that this would be the problem (after pointing out my
old firmware was woefully out of date; perhaps rev CC34 --I seem to recall
rev D100 being "current" though). Of course, after all this time, I no
longer have his Email address. Thanks, whomever you are.. :)
Mike
Received on Wed Aug 26 1998 - 22:44:03 NZST