bring up tape drive

[Christopher Browne]

On 3/21/06, Phillip Qin <Phillip.Qin-szgMhqSEIEG+XT7JhA+gdA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Dell tech support told me to unplug the data cable, power down the system
> and then power up the server, hold eject button. I think it is ridiculous
> because it is a web server, how can you expect any down time?
>
> If software solution is not feasible, I might have to bring down the server.

As a rule of thumb, we make sure that tape drives *aren't* connected
to systems we can't reboot.

They are, by and large, "fiddly bits of hardware" that can indeed
mandate system outages.

In our production environment, the tape drives sits remote from *all*
servers; that's pretty ideal, albeit somewhat expensive.

Trying to save money by forcing all functions onto one server tends to
add unexpected costs, like the one you're seeing...
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