On Wednesday 06 February 2002 09:07 am, Manuel Monteiro wrote: >Thanks, > >I've changed the tape scsi id to 4 (the only thing i've done > from your suggestions - the permissions are right, bin belongs > to the need groups and the devices are group rwx ) and noted > some improvements. Now the command 'amtape /config/ reset' > exist sucessfully with:
Which tells me that you still have that definition of 'scsitapedev' in your configs. I don't think its required. >changer: got exit: 0 str: 0 /dev/nst0 >amtape: changer is reset, slot 0 is loaded. > >and the tape from slot 0 is loaded. >But when i try to show the contents of all slots (amtape > /config/ show) i get: > >changer: got exit: 0 str: 0 5 1 0 >amtape: scanning all 5 slots in tape-changer rack: >changer: got exit: 0 str: 0 /dev/nst0 >slot 0: date X label Tape-0 So it did read the tape itself, good. >changer: got exit: 2 str: Can't read STE status >amtape: could not load slot Can't: read STE status >could not load slot Can't: read STE status >amtape: pid 2043 finish time Wed Feb 6 11:12:07 2002 AIR you do have an eject=1 in the config file. I didn't need that here. Try it without it, as in comment that out, just for grins. I don't think a recompile is needed to change that. Did you give ./configure the new data and re-compile amanda? Some of this stuff is compiled in, and a change needs to be built in by a fresh compile. Of course I'm grabbing at straws here as my changer is a Seagete 28887-XXX, so what I know may not directly translate to what you need. You might post the script you use to run ./configure with too. In any event, several fresh versions of 2.4.3b2 have been released on the amanda site since we first started conversing, and its possible that something has been fixed in the newer release. Just use the same set of options for ./configure and write the new one right over the top of the old one. >After the first tape is checked - slot 0 - it tries to unload > the tape and load the next slot. The problem seems to be on > unloading the tape. In the tape drive LCD i get a message > stating 'Semiloaded', have searched for this error and this > means that 'A tape/cartridge has been inserted into the drive > but has not been loaded.' the solution is to Send a 'SCSI Load > command to the device.' (Copy from HP docs). In fact if i issue > the command 'mtx -f /dev/nst0 unload', during the waiting > period of 'amtape /config/ show', the amtape will load the next > slot and so on... > >I didn't think that this would be so hard!!! But the good point > is that i keep learning things. :-) So am I. >I'm trying to find some docs from HP to find what dip switch > corresponds to the parity, in the manuals i got with the drive > only shows the usual configuration (on or off and there's 8 dip > switches - by default only switch 3 is off)! If you're getting this far now, I doubt there is a parity miss-match. >TIA. Regards, > >Manuel [snip] -- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 98.5+% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a hillbilly
