[Simh] loading decus10 tapes
Johnny Eriksson
bygg at cafax.se
Mon Aug 30 09:47:26 EDT 2010
> Hello
Hi.
> I keep getting the following error message from backup:
>
> /tape mta0
> ?BKPCOM Can't OPEN mag tape
Reason found in the log below:
> OPR>show status tape-drive /all
> OPR>
> 1:18:54 -- Tape Drive Status --
>
> Drive Trk Status AVR Density
> ------ --- ----------- --- -------------
> MTA000 9 Free Yes 800/1600
> MTA001 9 Free Yes 800/1600
> MTA002 9 Free Yes 800/1600
> MTA003 9 Free Yes 800/1600
This means that the tape drives are "owned" by the GALAXY system, and
therefore cannot be accessed as normal devices, but have to be mounted
via GALAXY. Or...
.r opr
OPR>set tape mta000: unavail foo
OPR>exit
This tells GALAXY to keep its fingers off the given drive. The last
argument (foo) is the reason you give, its a mandatory text that just
shows up in a log file somewhere, can be anything.
Now backup should work as intended.
--Johnny
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