On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Werner Behnke wrote:
> > We are using a Seagate Scorpion DDS-4 Autoloader without problems.
> > The only issue was, that for an unknown reason it doesn't like to be
> > connected to the SCSI controller as a 'wide' device. If you set the DIP
> > switches, such that it will register itself as a 'narrow' SCSI device
> > everything is fine. Performance is about 2.8 MB/s so the narrow cable
> > should not slow down the device noticeably.
>
> Does the autoloader support random access or
> only sequential mode?
It supports random access.
> Did you set up chg-manual in amanda to change
> tapes manually?
>
> If yes: how do you control the media changer?
> With mtx (http://mtx.sourceforge.net/) or
> Autoloader Tape Library
> (http://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~sblack/autoloader/)
> or something else (mt, SCSI UNLOAD command,
> Amanda's chg-mtx...)?
I took chg-mtx and adapted it at one place to use mtx 1.2. Using Linux
for the tape server you have to configure the kernel with multiple
LUNs per SCSI device.
Greetings,
Martin
