NetBSD/i386 is my platform (think of it as FreeBSD only better :-)). /dev/rst0 is the raw device, the n prefix version is the no-rewind version.
I am sure the author can explain the changerident field more. I think is kind of like a quirk table where it maps the expected result from each scsi command used by chg-scsi. Scott... Scott Burns NETCON Technologies Inc. Voice: +1.519.652.0401 Fax: +1.519.652.9275 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.netcontech.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gene Heskett Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 12:06 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Problems with chg-scsi On Wednesday 18 January 2006 23:03, Scott R. Burns wrote: >Works fine for me (NetBSD/i386 2.0.2, HP DAT24x6 on some Adaptec card > in a Compaq ML370. Key for reliable operation for me was: > >1) the "changerident" field being set to something. For my environment >"C1553A" is as close as I could get to my changer from the list of > known devices. Changerident? That name doesn't grep in the amanda-23.4.5p120051218/example dir where a sample chg-scsi.conf lives. And I wonder how much diff there is between the 6 slot C1553 and the 4 slot seagate 4586np. Other than the seagate stacks the tapes vertically and from pix, it looks like the hp handles them horizontally somehow. However, in the docs dir, there is a .txt file, chgscsi.txt, that does describe this, unforch this file was apparently added after I'd given up, its dated: May 13 2005 chgscsi.txt. By then I'd bought a 200GB pata drive and partitioned it for /var, swap & 180GB as /amandatapes. I have 10GB of swap & haven't ever used more than 10 megs of it. Gigabyte of ram though. >2) the definition of both "dev" (/dev/nrst0) and "scsitapedev" > (/dev/rst0). Thats not a linux device name. Solaris? >Other than that is works fine now, never dumps and I have no rewind > issues with both of these device lines setup. > >$ 0.02 Canadian :-) > >Scott.. > >Scott Burns >NETCON Technologies Inc. >Voice: +1.519.652.0401 >Fax: +1.519.652.9275 >E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Web: www.netcontech.com > >-----Original Message----- [...] -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
