>Well, I've tried the 'sst' driver and it works only slightly better than
>the 'sgen' driver. With the 'sst' driver I can send as many 'mtx inquiry'
>commands as I like and they all work.
What about "mtx -f /dev/rsst5 status"?
># mtx -f /dev/rsst5 first
>mtx: No such device or address
>...
>I don't know what this means, but obviously something is producing
>incorrect results. Any ideas on what I can look at?
We need to see exactly what mtx tried to do. Unfortunately, mtx it not
too good at that (see below).
>Anyway, has anyone done much testing with the 'sst' driver in SunOS
>5.8? It seems the bulk of people tend to use Linux or Windows so I guess
>Solaris testing is not the primary focus of the Amanda development group.
Ummm, you've got that twisted a bit. I use only Solaris and AIX and I'm
an Amanda developer, but don't use any of the Amanda changers (it's a long
story :-), and also do not use mtx. So it's the mtx testing that might
be a bit behind, not Solaris. And for that, maybe you should ask the
mtx people since it's their program that's not working here, not Amanda.
Be that as it may, I have a robot and sst on Solaris 2.6 and should at
least be able to get some more debugging output into the code for you
to try. What version of mtx are you using?
FYI, 1.10 works with inquiry for me but fails (I/O error) for status.
Version 1.11pre2 doesn't work at all (I/O error). I'm pretty sure I can
get at least those things to work for me, and possibly in the process,
get the going for you.
>Craig.
John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
