Hi again, Stefan Hellwig wrote:
> Hi! > > On Wednesday 04 September 2002 10:58, Christoph Scheeder wrote: > >>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.... >> > > Yes, that's what I thought. 10 minutes is wrong... I guess the problem is that > somehow the SCSI controller or Linux cannot communicate correctly with the > ADIC DAT changer. Do you also use Linux? If so, which version and what kind > of SCSI host adapter? Yes, debian linux, at the moment v3.0 but it worked fine with v2.2. Kernel is 2.4.19, was a late 2.2.x, amanda is 2.4.3b4, self compiled, started to use the changer with amanda 2.4.2p2, self compiled Hostadapter is an adaptec AIC7890/91 on my motherboard (asus-P2BS) do you get any scsi-errors in syslog? what version of amanda? chg-scsi from 2.4p2 is buggy, get the one from 2.4.3b4, it works fine. and every time i open the cover of my changer i have to use the unload and the reload button at the front, or the changer won't do anything, as it detects the opening of the cover. You don't use a precompiled amanda do you? Using the packages from the distros is just asking for trouble and compiling amanda is not a big deal. > >>my chg-scsi.conf looks like this: [...] >> > > Thanks. However, our configurations are basically identical except for the > fact that I have a longer "sleep" value of "90" instead of "30". That should > not make the difference, though. I will set it to "30" but this only affects > the tape and not the changer, I believe. yup, set it a little longer then the time your tapedrive needs to get ready after the tape gets loaded. 90 seconds seem to be on the "safe side". Christoph
