[daip] Re: tapew drive in aips

[Jennifer Wiseman]

Thanks all, for your work on this.
Sorry I'm not there any more to re-try this,
but it sounds like the exabytes work now.
By the way, I did NOT power cycle any of
the tape drives.

-J. Wiseman

On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Eric Greisen wrote:

> Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 10:11:52 -0600
> From: Eric Greisen <egreisen at aoc.nrao.edu>
> To: Jennifer Wiseman <jwiseman at pha.jhu.edu>
> Cc: daip at primate.aoc.NRAO.EDU
> Subject: tapew drive in aips
>
> ------- start of forwarded message (RFC 934 encapsulation) -------
>
>
>    Prior to rebooting thuban was reporting SCSI bus errors for
> it's exabyte.   Now after a reboot I can successfully read/write
> tapes.
>
>    I don't know how to write a tape via aips so could you or
> somebody else verify it does in fact work.
>
>   The errors in the logs were indicitive of a SCSI device
> disconnect.   My guess is she had some procedural or tape
> problem and attempted to fix it by power cycling the tape
> drive.   This won't fix anything but will probably ensure that
> it won't work again.
>
>   Looking at the failure modes I don't think it's coincidence
> that all the drives she tried don't work and all the drives she
> didn't do.
>
>    In any event I'd like to know if aips can write to it before
> I reboot capella and assume the problem is corrected.
>
> ------- end -------
>
> Things work fine now on thuban - and probably will on capella after a
> reboot.  The drives in the other room (next door) worked fine before
> the helpdesk folks did the above.
>
> Eric Greisen
>