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From: dmdc@ncrsea.Seattle.NCR.COM (Dennis M. Dooley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ncr
Subject: Re: Tape Drive Light
Message-ID: <514@ncrsea.Seattle.NCR.COM>
Date: 12 Jan 90 20:24:05 GMT
References: <2008@texbell.swbt.com>
Reply-To: dmdc@ncrsea.Seattle.NCR.COM (Dennis M. Dooley)
Organization: NCR Corp, Western Washington District
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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...

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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