Re: Welcome in flooded Switzerland

[Peter Kammel <kammel@mucap1.npl.uiuc.edu>]

Dear Fred,

I had tried already several tapes which were not write protected.
We now ran the cleaning tape, without success. Could you perhaps
try remotely, whether we are making trivial mistakes.

The status is: 
Slot 0 contains an un-barcoded new tape, which should go back to
Slot 1.

Slot 2 also has a non write protected test tape. 

The others are protected run8 data tapes.

Thanks and Good luck.

Peter

mucap1,~> /usr/sbin/mtx -f /dev/robot status
  Storage Changer /dev/robot:1 Drives, 30 Slots ( 0 Import/Export )
Data Transfer Element 0:Full (Storage Element 1 Loaded)
      Storage Element 1:Empty
      Storage Element 2:Full :VolumeTag=MU0145
      Storage Element 3:Full :VolumeTag=MU0103
      Storage Element 4:Full :VolumeTag=MU0104
      Storage Element 5:Full :VolumeTag=MU0105
      Storage Element 6:Full :VolumeTag=MU0106
      Storage Element 7:Full :VolumeTag=MU0107
      Storage Element 8:Full :VolumeTag=MU0108
      Storage Element 9:Full :VolumeTag=MU0109
      Storage Element 10:Full :VolumeTag=MU0110
      Storage Element 11:Full :VolumeTag=MU0111
      Storage Element 12:Full :VolumeTag=MU0112
      Storage Element 13:Full :VolumeTag=MU0113
      Storage Element 14:Full :VolumeTag=MU0114
      Storage Element 15:Full :VolumeTag=MU0115
      Storage Element 16:Full :VolumeTag=MU0116
      Storage Element 17:Full :VolumeTag=MU0117
      Storage Element 18:Full :VolumeTag=MU0118
      Storage Element 19:Full :VolumeTag=MU0119
      Storage Element 20:Full :VolumeTag=MU0120
      Storage Element 21:Full :VolumeTag=MU0121
      Storage Element 22:Full :VolumeTag=MU0122
      Storage Element 23:Full :VolumeTag=MU0123
      Storage Element 24:Full :VolumeTag=MU0124
      Storage Element 25:Full :VolumeTag=MU0125
      Storage Element 26:Full :VolumeTag=MU0126
      Storage Element 27:Full :VolumeTag=MU0127
      Storage Element 28:Full :VolumeTag=MU0128
      Storage Element 29:Full :VolumeTag=MU0129
      Storage Element 30:Full :VolumeTag=CLN000


On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Frederick Gray wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 02:24:52PM -0500, Peter Kammel wrote:
> > Dear Fred,
> > 
> > Could you help me on my failed copying attempts
> > to the robot. Cleaning tape next?
> >
> 
> Hi, Peter,
> 
> The river level is indeed high, but I don't feel in too much danger of being
> swept away.  (Also, you missed an excellent dinner party at Francoise's place
> this evening...)  
> 
> I would check with the front-panel interface or the Web management
> interface to see whether the drive is asking to be cleaned.  If so, then
> cleaning it would be my next step.  Otherwise, I would try a couple other 
> things first:
> 
> = Have you checked the write-protect switch on the tape?
> = Have you tried using a different tape?
> = Can you try writing a series of smaller files, perhaps just 1 KB each,
>    with the dd command?  Does it fail at the same block mark, or is it
>    always on the first file, or something else?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -- Fred
> 
> -- Fred Gray / Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher                 --
> -- Department of Physics / University of California, Berkeley   --
> -- fegray@berkeley.edu / phone 510-642-2438 / fax 510-642-9811  --
> 

Peter Kammel  /  pkammel@uiuc.edu
Department of Physics, Loomis Laboratory
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1110 West Green Street, Urbana, IL 61801 
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