Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!rutgers!texbell!mechjgh
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Subject: Tape Drive Light
Message-ID: <2008@texbell.swbt.com>
Date: 11 Jan 90 17:52:13 GMT
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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?

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Oregon Department of Agriculture   |     Tel: (503) 378-3790    |
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