- Tweak install chapter of French manual to add new paragraph

[bacula/bacula] / bacula / scripts / mtx-changer.in

diff --git a/bacula/scripts/mtx-changer.in b/bacula/scripts/mtx-changer.in
index f25467d434d90f17da598718248329f2707a3eff..37b7cc63706c4871d0fce183ff39a973c1da108e 100644 (file)
--- a/bacula/scripts/mtx-changer.in
+++ b/bacula/scripts/mtx-changer.in
@@ -29,10 +29,25 @@
 
 MTX=@MTX@
 
+#
+# The purpose of this function to wait a maximum 
+#   time for the drive. It will
+#   return as soon as the drive is ready, or after
+#   waiting a maximum of 180 seconds.
+# Note, this is very system dependent, so if you are
+#   not running on Linux, you will probably need to
+#   re-write it.
+#
+# If you have a FreeBSD system, you might want to change
+#  the $(seq 180) to $(jot 180) -- tip from Brian McDonald
+#
 wait_for_drive() {
-  while ! mt -f $1 status >/dev/null 2>&1; do
+  for i in $(seq 180); do   # Wait max 180 seconds
+    if mt -f $1 status >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+      break
+    fi
 #   echo "Device $1 - not ready, retrying..."
-    sleep 5
+    sleep 1
   done
 }
 
@@ -109,6 +124,10 @@ case $cmd in
       ${MTX} -f $ctl status | grep " *Storage Element [0-9]*:.*Full" | awk "{print \$3 \$4}" | sed "s/Full *\(:VolumeTag=\)*//"
 # Comment out the previous line and add a line here
 # to print "fake" barcodes.
+#
+# If you have a VXA PacketLoader and the above does not work, try
+#  turning it off and enabling the following line.
+#     ${MTX} -f $ctl status | grep " *Storage Element [0-9]*:.*Full" | sed "s/*Storage Element //" | sed "s/Full :VolumeTag=//"
       ;;
 
    loaded)