mechjgh@texbell.swbt.com (01/12/90)
We have an NCR Tower 32/650 with NCR Unix 02.01.01. When I use the NCR System Administrator (sa) menus to do a PARTITION BACKUP to an internal 150 mb cartridge tape drive in the bottom tape drive slot, the drive light stays on after the PARTITION BACKUP is complete. In fact, the only way I've been able to turn it off is to do a COMPLETE SYSTEM SHUTDOWN. We also do cpio backups under shell scripts and the tape drive light is properly turned on and off. But, even the completion of a cpio backup from the shell script will not turn off the tape drive light IF it was on at the start of the cpio backup from an sa PARTITION BACKUP. Are other NCR Tower 32 users out there also having this problem? And, if so, does any one have a work around (short of complete system shutdown) and/or a fix? ----------------------------------------------------------------- Doug Walker | email: uunet!fdls!dougw | Oregon Department of Agriculture | Tel: (503) 378-3790 | Food and Dairy Division | Fax: (503) 378-5529 | 635 Capitol Street NE | | Salem, OR 97310-0110 | | ------------------------------------------------------------------
steve@pmday_2.Dayton.NCR.COM (Steve Bridges) (01/12/90)
In article <2008@texbell.swbt.com> mechjgh@texbell.ogc.edu writes: >[much text deleted about tape drive light...] We have a similiar configuration here. We do are backups a little differently (well, actually a lot differently, but that is another story. If anybody is interested, I will post a summary to the net). On one tower where I know they do incremental backups through SA, their drive light stays on also. The only way they know it is done is to wait to get back to the menu from the backup procedure. Their drive lights stays on. Perhaps if you retension the tape (run /menu/obj/retension.o), that will turn the light off. Also, in the 3400 Series Installation/Service/Diagnostic Guide, it says what the various states of the drive light mean. When I get to the office tomorrow, I will post what it says. Perhaps somebody at E&M Columbia will post if the light staying what the light staying on means while doing a partition backup. -- Steve Bridges | NCR - USDPG Product Marketing and Support OLS Steve.Bridges@Dayton.NCR.COM | Phone:(513)-445-4182 622-4182 (Voice Plus) ..!ncrlnk!usglnk!pmday_2!steve | AOPA #916233 ..!uunet!ncrlnk!usglnk!pmday_2!steve| PP-ASEL, AMEL
akkanen@cs.Helsinki.FI (Jukka Akkanen) (01/12/90)
Yeah... I've had similar difficulties on Unisys 5000/55 running SysV rel 2.01 (I guess it's NCR Tower sold under another name, am I right?). The tape drive led will be lit forever after /etc/tension, but no other tape operation causes that kind of problems.
mechjgh@tness7.UUCP (Greg Hackney ) (01/12/90)
In article <816@pmday_2.Dayton.NCR.COM> steve@pmday_2.Dayton.NCR.COM (Steve Bridges) writes: >In article <2008@texbell.swbt.com> mechjgh@texbell.ogc.edu writes: ^ | FYI, the article about the light was not from mechjgh@texbell.ogc.edu. That is a non-existent site. It was from uunet!fdls!dougw (Doug Walker) -- Greg
dmdc@ncrsea.Seattle.NCR.COM (Dennis M. Dooley) (01/13/90)
In article <2008@texbell.swbt.com> writes: >We have an NCR Tower 32/650 with NCR Unix 02.01.01. When I use the NCR System >Administrator (sa) menus to do a PARTITION BACKUP to an internal 150 mb >cartridge tape drive in the bottom tape drive slot, the drive light stays on >after the PARTITION BACKUP is complete. In fact, the only way I've been able >to turn it off is to do a COMPLETE SYSTEM SHUTDOWN. > Doug, I can't find a good excuse for the behavior you describe. You may want to bounce this one off of CODAR if you don't have any luck on the responses from the net. Rather than shutdown, next time while the tape is still in the drive, try entering </dev/TAPE_DEVICE?. This should rewind the tape and shut the light off. Send me e-mail on the type of cartridge tape that you are using in the drive. Well thats my two cents worth... ________________________________________________________________________ Regards, Dennis M. Dooley Systems Engineering NCR Corporation ncrsea!dmdc (206) 643-4150 15400 S.E. 30th Pl. dennis.dooley@ncrsea.Seattle.NCR.COM Bellevue, WA. 98007