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From: steve@pmday_2.Dayton.NCR.COM (Steve Bridges)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ncr
Subject: Re: Tape Drive Light
Message-ID: <816@pmday_2.Dayton.NCR.COM>
Date: 12 Jan 90 02:15:38 GMT
References: <2008@texbell.swbt.com>
Reply-To: steve@pmday_2.Dayton.NCR.COM (Steve Bridges)
Organization: NCR Corporation - USDPG Product Marketing (Dayton)
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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.


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