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Auto-Rewind on Exabyte VXA drive?
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| Jeremy Billones 2004-12-22, 8:49 pm |
| 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 2004-12-22, 8:49 pm |
| In article <10sjg69rg704p41@corp.supernews.com>,
Jeremy Billones <billones@radix.net> wrote:
>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.
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 2004-12-23, 5:45 pm |
| 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
news:10sjg69rg704p41@corp.supernews.com...
> 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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