Hi, We have a Sun StorEdge L280 but attached to a x86 machine running Linux. There may be some differences in configuration for you, but we have no problem advancing round-robin through the tapes.
On Fri, 2002-06-07 at 16:23, Richard Chen wrote: > Hi, > I am evaluating using amanda to control a > sun storedge L280 library tape drive system (Quantum DLT7000) > connected to a sparc solaris server. I want to know if amanda > is able to cycle through and reuse the tapes in the 6 slots > on the drive. 6 slots? Ours is 8, carrying 7 tapes and 1 cleaning cartridge. No problems having amanda by-pass the cleaning cartridge, either. > > The problem is that using solaris mt command: > > # mt -f /dev/rmt/0 offline > > I can only cycle through the tapes in the 6 slots once. > Once the last slot has been used, the drive goes into 'loader ready' > state and the tapes in any of the slots are not loaded anymore. > One has to physically load the tape using the front control panel > on the tape drive. This is not acceptable because the server > is located at a remote data center and we want to reuse the tape > many times before changing them. > > Does anyone have any exprience using amanda to control this > kind of tape drive automatically? > > Thanks for any info. > > Richard >
