[2482] in SIPB-AFS-requests
Re: DLT drive
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sam Hartman)
Thu Sep 26 18:26:06 1996
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: sipb-afsreq@MIT.EDU, mycroft@MIT.EDU
From: Sam Hartman <hartmans@MIT.EDU>
Date: 26 Sep 1996 18:24:44 -0400
In-Reply-To: Greg Hudson's message of Thu, 26 Sep 1996 12:05:51 -0400
>>>>> "Greg" == Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:
Greg> Regarding the initial failure: they said there should not be
Greg> a tape in the drive when it is turned off or turned on or
Greg> when the machine is rebooted. They said that was probably
Greg> caused it to fail in the first place. (I don't know if that
Greg> actually happened or not.)
Yes. The initial error was caused by a stray SCSI reset
during a backup; this could look to the drive like a reboot and could
have caused it to get confused. I think we might want to ask them how
this failure is fixed, as it may not be avoidable in the case of
hardware or power failure.
--Sam
