To all of you who responded about this, THANK YOU!  We rebooted our system
on Monday night and we have had perfect, unattended backups for the last two
nights in a row, with both of our DLT tape drives autoreplying contentedly.

-----Original Message-----
From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
Behalf Of EBEN YONG
Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 3:33 PM
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Subject: autoreply for more than 1 tape drive


Another question about this topic:

If I have multiple tape drives, and I wish to enable them for autoreply, do
I need to issue the "HOLD" command between each "MDEV" statement?  Or is a
single "HOLD" command sufficient *after* the MDEV statements?

Thanks.

Eben Yong
MIS Manager
Health Plan of San Mateo

 sysgen> io

        ** IO configurator commands **

        aclass (ac)      adev (ad)       apath (ap)      avol (av)
        dclass (dc)      ddev (dd)       dpath (dp)      dvol (dv)
        lclass (lc)      ldev (ld)       lpath (lp)      lvol (lv)
        maddress(ma)     mclass (mc)     mdev (md)       mpath (mp)
        mvol (mv)

        clear (cl)(c)    exit (ex)(e)    help (he)(h)    hold (ho)
        oclose (oc)      redo
     io> MD 51 MODE=AUTOREPLY
     io> HOLD
     io> MD 52 MODE=AUTOREPLY
     io> HOLD
     io> MD 7 MODE=AUTOREPLY
     io> HOLD
     io> MD 8 MODE=AUTOREPLY
     io> HOLD
     io> MD 9 MODE=AUTOREPLY
     io> HOLD
     io> EXIT
 sysgen> KEEP
        keeping to group CONFIG.SYS
        Purge old configuration (yes/no)?YES
        ** configuration files successfully saved **
 sysgen> EXIT