On Wednesday 11 December 2002 18:32, Paul G. Allen wrote: >-------- Original Message -------- >Subject: Sony TSL-S7000 DDS2 autoloader >Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 10:31:42 -0800 From: John Oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Anyone know of any support for these? > >The Red Hat HCL lists similar units, but not this one. And they > say autoloading isn't supported. Google turns up a few mentions > of this drive. Anyone happen to know of a site where there might > be other drivers to try? This drive isn't very useful if the > tapes won't cycle through it... :-)
And doubly handicapped by the stock linux (at least R.H.) kernels, which do not do a 'scan all luns' when the scsi bus is being initialized. That means there is a decent chance the kernel won't find the changer mechanism which is often on the same bus address but at lun 1 as opposed to the drive being lun 0, where lun stands Logical Unit Number. This is the case with my Seagate changer, and I believe its fairly commonly done that way to save scsi bus address usage. If that is the case, rebuild your kernel with this option turned on, and then find out if 'mtx' can run the changer when given the device name found for it in the /var/log/dmesg file, (or where ever your system keeps its bootup message log) if its then found and registered. Half the battle has been won if it is found that mtx can run the robot. If not, investigate a different drive, or hassle the drive maker to at least PD the drives API so that it can be made usable on *nix systems. Its possible that mtx has had some new additions that I'm not aware of too, so please get & check the latest version of that before you give up. That addition to amanda, if required, is not an overnight project, and often depends on how busy the maintainer of the various robot manager scripts is. -- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 99.20% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
