Re: Re: star quitting when changing tapes

On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 07:13, Joerg Schilling wrote:

> > At then end of the first tape, i changed tapes and hit
> > return.  This time it did not quit and exit the
> > terminal.  Instead it said.....
> >
> > star: 1023777 blocks + 0 bytes (total of 10483476480
> > bytes = 10237770.00k).
> > star: Mount volume #2 on '/dev/st0' and hit <RETURN>
> > star: Device or resource busy. Error writing
> > '/dev/st0'.
> 
> This looks like a serious kernel driver bug.

How long had the tape been in the drive?  I've seen
errors accessing dds tapes if you try it before
the lights stop flashing on the drive - which sometimes
takes close to a minute.  It would be nice if
star offered to retry in this case, though.

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  Les Mikesell
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