On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Martin A. Brooks wrote:
>Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 10:40:50 +0100
>From: Martin A. Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: tape changer
>
>At 11:27 03/10/2002 +0200, you wrote:
>>Hm,
>>are you shure /dev/sg0 is your changer?
>>does it have scsi-id 0 or is the lowest id on your scsi-bus?
>>if not count the devices with lower id's and use this number as <x>
>>in /dev/sg<x>.
>>Christoph
>
>I can successfully load and unload tape using mtx. So, yes, I'm sure sg0 is
>my changer. I've also switched to the chg-zd-mtx changer script as this
>seems more appropriate to my system.
>
>With tapedev as "/dev/nst0" and changerdev as "0", I now get this error,
>which I'm not sure how to sort....
>
>backup@amanda:/etc/amanda/Changer$ amtape Changer show
>amtape: could not get changer info: cannot determine first slot
Martin,
What sort of output are you seeing in /tmp/amanda/changer*.debug (or
whatever it's called). Those can be useful files to look in.
My guess is that your drive isn't returning status data in a form that
amtape can parse, or something. I've had similar problems in the past few
weeks.
>
>
>Regards
>
>Mart.
>
>
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