On Thursday 21 November 2002 14:04, Damon Conway wrote: >On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 10:22:07PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Wednesday 20 November 2002 17:10, Damon Conway wrote: >> >Hello all, >> >I've been wrestling with chg-scsi and my Quantum changer all >> > day. Here are the specs: >> > >> >Red Hat 8.0 w/ kernel 2.4.18 >> >Quantum SuperLoader SDLT 3520L >> >Amanda 2.4.3 >> > >> >If I set changerdev to /dev/sg0 and dev to /dev/nst0, I get >> > this: >> > >> ># sudo /usr/local/libexec/chg-scsi -info >> >Can't get ElementStatus >> ># >> > >> >I can't find anything on that error in the list archives, >> > searching Google, or looking in the docs (TAPE.CHANGERS or >> > FAQ-O-MATIC). According to /proc/scsi/sg/device*, /dev/sg0 is >> > "QUANTUM SuperDLT1 2A2A". I'm assuming that the error means >> > that it can't talk to the device. >> >> One thing that can trip up the unwary is that, depending on the >> drive, the changer robot may be at the same bus address as the >> drive, but is lun=1 where the drive is lun=0. Thats the case >> here at my place. >> >> The tripup is that the stock kernel dos not AFAIK, do a "scan >> all luns" at startup, thereby missing the changer robot. This >> is an option you may have to turn on and rebuild the kernel to >> make work if thats the case with your changer. > >Ah ha! This solved the problem.
See, I do manage to hit one once in a while. :-) > Thanks. I'll see about adding >something about this to docs/TAPE.CHANGERS and creating a diff. > Where does stuff like that get sent? There is the option to edit the FAQ-O-MATIC itself, exersizable by almost anyone. I tried it once, but the editor was worse than the old ms 'ed' for being about 3000% non-intuitive, so I wound up screwing it up and had to yell for help. Someone who is familiar with that editor could probably just type it in a couple of minutes. But obviously I wasn't that someone, never having done battle with it before. But, for the brave, its there. -- Cheers Damon, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 99.19% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
