Hello,
I am new to Amanda. I have an Exabyte EZ17 Autoloader (Mammoth2) with
AME225 cartridges. The tape is connected to a Redhat Linux 6.2 system
with an Adaptec 7899 U160 on-board SCSI controller. The SCSI driver
identifies the tape and the changer correctly.
I have installed Amanda-2.4.2p2 and mtx-1.2.13. From the command line, I
can control the changer with mtx (unload, load x, status). With mt, I
can control the tape (rewind, fsf, offline, status, etc.). I had
successfully used dump/restore with this tape.
Now, I try to configure Amanda. I have the following output from the
amcheck command:
[root@lmcpc111335 /root]# su amanda -c "amcheck DailySet1"
Amanda Tape Server Host Check
-----------------------------
Holding disk /var/tmp: 3873928 KB disk space available, using 2849928 KB
amcheck-server: slot 1: not an amanda tape
amcheck-server: slot /usr/lib/amanda/chg-zd-mtx:: no tape online
amcheck-server: slot /usr/lib/amanda/chg-zd-mtx:: no tape online
amcheck-server: slot /usr/lib/amanda/chg-zd-mtx:: no tape online
amcheck-server: slot /usr/lib/amanda/chg-zd-mtx:: no tape online
amcheck-server: slot /usr/lib/amanda/chg-zd-mtx:: no tape online
amcheck-server: slot /usr/lib/amanda/chg-zd-mtx:: no tape online
ERROR: new tape not found in rack
(expecting a new tape)
NOTE: skipping tape-writable test
NOTE: info dir /var/lib/amanda/DailySet1/curinfo: does not exist
NOTE: it will be created on the next run
Server check took 268.382 seconds
Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
--------------------------------
Client check: 1 host checked in 0.043 seconds, 0 problems found
(brought to you by Amanda 2.4.2p2)
I can ear/see the changer going through each cartridges and say "no tape
online". Any ideas ?
Can somebody tell me why I get "not an amanda tape" and "no tape online"
messages ?
I am using the following tapelist which I have found in the mailing list:
define tapetype M2-AME225 {
comment "Exabyte EZ17 Mammoth2"
length 57487 mbytes
filemark 0 kbytes
speed 11765 kbytes
}
Can somebody confirm me this is OK ? since the faq-o-matic system is
down and I cannot validate this information.
Thanks a lot for your help,
Claude.
