On Saturday 04 September 2004 11:16, Jon LaBadie wrote: >On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 02:08:58AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Saturday 04 September 2004 01:43, Jon LaBadie wrote: >> >On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 11:59:10PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >> >> The last time that situation came up here Jon, having runtapes >> >> > 1 didn't help. Due to the lack of a working ioctl for rewind >> >> in amanda or chg-scsi, it failed. But thats nothing new. >> >> Apparently I have the only system in the world that from >> >> amanda-2.4.1 and RH6.2 through FC2 and whatever the last >> >> amanda-2.4.4/5b/px is, and 3 mobo/cpu replacements for where >> >> the drive lived, still cannot rewind a tape with anything but >> >> mt. Am I nuts? Rhetorical, please don't anwser that! >> > >> >Works here regularly. Recently I was so negligent I ran my >> >abundant holding disks out of space by never replacing worn >> >out tapes. Amanda stopped working, no place to put the data. >> > >> >When I finally labeled some new tapes and did an amflush, >> >it took all 4 tapes it could and still left a lot in the >> >holding disks. Next night it autoflushed during the regular >> >amdump and took 2 tapes. >> >> Are you using chg-scsi? > >No, I've used chg-mtx and sometimes chg-zd-mtx.
Which, if I read the docs well enough, won't run a seagate 4586 changer. Me goes off and beats head on wall. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.25% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
