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From: durriya@apollo.COM (Durriya Netterwala)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Wbak abort if tape offline [ was : Why I do not like SR10]
Message-ID: <40836c5e.86ca@apollo.COM>
Date: 27 Dec 88 22:41:00 GMT
References: <15995@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Reply-To: durriya@apollo.COM (Durriya Netterwala)
Organization: Apollo Computer, Chelmsford, MA
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In article <15995@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> sahayman@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Steve Hayman) writes:
>
>part of our normal backup procedure.  At the start of the fourth tape,
>after wbak prompted me to mount another tape, my fingers got a little
>ahead of my brain and I typed "go" a split second before the tape came online.
>
>wbak's response?  "Unexpected error - tape offline"
>

	During tape swaps wbak should and did handle offline correctly
(i.e it would prompt if the tape was offline). Unfortunately at sr9.7
this was broken by some changes made. This bug also got carried over
to sr10.
	Anyway, we have already sent a patch tape out for /lib/tfp
for the sr9.7 version and will be doing the same for sr10 very soon.
Hope this helps.


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