HI
I am in the process of configuring amanda to use a sunstorage L280 i have
the option to set it as a stacker, random and autodetect which its set
at.
when i run amtape it only reads 4 of the 8 tapes. and sometimes it doesn't
even read the labels. I am useing chg-multi.conf and this is what i
normally get. is there a better config i should be useing
slot 1: not an amanda tape
slot 2: slot is empty
slot 3: not an amanda tape
slot 4: slot is empty
slot 5: date X label YANG7301
slot 6: slot is empty
slot 7: slot is empty
slot 8: slot is empty
[root@odin]: amtape YANG show
amtape: scanning all 8 slots in tape-changer rack:
slot 8: date X label YANG201
slot 1: slot is empty
slot 2: date X label YANG101
slot 3: slot is empty
slot 4: date X label YANG301
slot 5: slot is empty
slot 6: not an amanda tape
slot 7: slot is empty
ddddOn Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Paul Lussier wrote:
> In a message dated: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 10:13:24 EST
> Andrew Bacchi said:
>
> >I am trying to set up Amanda for my remote systems. I use an ATL L500
> >14 bay changer/library with an DLT 7000 tape drive. I am currently
> >doing simple tar directly to the DLT tape using /dev/st0(or /dev/nst0)
> >from a RH Linux 6.2 system.
> >
> >After reading much documentation, I find no /dev/ch0 and ./MAKEDEV will
> >not create this device. The best I can tell is the tape device may be
> >/dev/sga. But I admit I am very confused over this. I do have the info
> >for tapetype, but not tapedev.
> >
> >Can anyone lend some info for the ATL series of library/changers? All I
> >need is pointing in the right direction. Thanks for any help.
>
> Ahm, I think you need the Generic SCSI device support compiled into the kernel.
> I'm not sure about /dev/ch0, but I'm using /dev/sg0 under RH6.2 with an
> HP SureStor 818 8-tape autochanger with DLT7000 drive.
>
> Hope this helps.
> --
> Seeya,
> Paul
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