Greets everybody; I may have found a bug/feature thats crept into the later versions of amanda, and which might even be 2.6.0 related as I'm currently booted to 2.6.0-test9.
Anyway, if the drive has not had a tape loaded manualy, or with mtx, amcheck seems to be unable to access the drive and hangs essentially forever. But with a tape loaded, it can then go ahead and inventory the changer looking for the right tape. I didn't have to preload the drive with the version I was running in mid-august before I spent 2 months in Colorado, so this is a fairly recent developement. Currently running the 2.4.4p1-20031030 version on RH8.0 with lots of updates, using chg-scsi to run the changer. -- Cheers, Gene AMD [EMAIL PROTECTED] 320M [EMAIL PROTECTED] 512M 99.27% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2003 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
