On Tuesday 05 February 2002 11:44 am, Manuel Monteiro wrote: >I've done all of your suggestions. Thanks for spending some of your > time to help me! > >> >Amanda don't goes thru all the tapes, it just loaded tape from >> > storage element 3 (and not slot 1 as mencioned). >> >During amcheck i get an error at the lcd display in front of the >> > tape drive stating: SCSI error: Check interface. >> >> Are both the drive and the scsi card set to match regarding the >> parity setings? > >Sorry but i don't understand you, what do you mean by parity settings?
I'd assume there is a dip switch setting on the drive that controls whether or not the scsi interface data bus uses a parity bit to detect errors that would otherwise be missed, so using the parity bit is highly recomended. Set the drives switches or jumpers to turn it on, then reboot the computer and when it says to hit ctrl+a to see the cards bios settings, do so and verify that the card is also set to use the parity bit AT THAT DEVICE ADDRESS. >I've got and adaptec 29160 scsi card (SCSI ID-7) and attached to it an >internal SCSI HDD (ID-6) and the external autoloader (ID-5) as you can > see in my log. Humm, you might want to set the tape down to ID=4 in case the robot needs 5, some use the next address above the drive to access the robot. >> Make the above changes I noted, and try a "amtape /config/ reset" >> which should load the first tape and record it to the system, and >> then do an "amtape /config/ show", which should scan all tapes in >> the drive except the cleaning tape presumably in slot 6. >> -- > >The output from amtape /config/ reset is ># su bin -c 'amtape caup reset' >changer: got exit: 2 str: Can't read STE status >amtape: could not reset changer: read STE status >could not reset changer: read STE status >amtape: pid 2375 finish time Tue Feb 5 16:21:34 2002 Mmm, whats the permissions and owner:group of /dev/nst0? Somethings fubar. Can you do a "mt -f /dev/nst0 status" and such as user amanda? If you can't, then those perms need adjusting. Cheers, Gene
