Has anybody seen this ?
There's something wrong with the tape drive and/or its configuration on our new Netapp box; the unload-reload command that's supposed to eject the tape and load the next one doesn't seem to work:
iron> mt -f urst0a offline Tape device (0b.4) unload/reload failed - please check drive. mt: close of tape urst0a failed
The tape ejects from the "DLT1" drive, but doesn't get replaced in the magazine and the next tape doesn't get loaded. This command works properly on our F540s with the smaller 10-tape Overland tape robots.
I've talked with both Netapp and Overland and each company blamed the other one. I'm inclined to believe that it's something that I haven't configured properly on the tape drive, but the documentation is less than wonderful about explaining how to configure the auto-advance stuff. I have tried rebooting the tape drive and the netapp box to no avail.
Any thoughts?
Thanks!