hi,
i have such a changer working fine since about a year now,
it's not the fastest,( amcheck takes about 1 or 2 Minutes per tape)
but 10 Minutes per tape is much to long....
my chg-scsi.conf looks like this:
<---cut--->
number_configs
1
eject
1
sleep
30
cleanmax
30
changerdev /dev/sg6
config
0
drivenum
0
dev
/dev/nst0
scsitapedev
/dev/sg5
startuse
0
enduse
10
statfile /etc/amanda/tape-slot
cleancart
11
cleanfile
/etc/amanda/tape-clean
usagecount
/etc/amanda/backup/totaltime
<---cut--->
Hope it helps,
Christoph
Stefan Hellwig wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I am very new to AMANDA (I started using it yesterday :-). However, I managed
> to get the configuration done and all seems to work fine, thanks especially
> to the great online manuals I found.
>
> I am using version 2.4.2p2 on Linux (SuSE 6.4, Kernel 2.2.14) with an ADIC
> 1200 DAT-Changer (12 slots) connected to an Adaptec 2940 SCSI host adapter. I
> configured the chg-scsi changer configuration using the chg-scsi-linux.conf
> as a template.
>
> Although it can control the changer and read/write to the connected HP DAT
> tape there remains one problem: The DAT changer needs a very long time (10
> minutes!) to change tapes. In the chg-scsi debug output I usually get a lot
> of "not ready" messages like this:
>
> <-- CUT -->
>
> ##### START GenericSenseHandler
> ##### START DecodeSense
> GenericSenseHandler : Sense Keys
> ErrorCode 70
> Valid 0
> ASC 3A
> ASCQ 00
> Sense key 02
> Not Ready
> GenericSenseHandler : NOT_READY ASC = 3a ASCQ = 0
> #### STOP SenseHandler
>
> <-- CUT -->
>
> Then, at some point, I get the following message:
>
> <-- CUT -->
>
> #### STOP SenseHandler
> GenericEject : Ready after 600 sec, true = 1
> ##### STOP eject_tape [0]
> ###### START unload
> unload : fd 3, slot 3, drive 0
> unload : unload drive 0[2] slot 3[6]
> ##### START GenericMove
> GenericMove : from = 2, to = 6
>
> <-- CUT -->
>
> It then finally takes the tape back into its slot and tries to load the next
> one. Can anyone help me out here? Thanks!
>
> Regards, Stefan.
>
>
