Just installing it see below. # mtx -f /dev/sg13 inventory mtx: Request Sense: Long Report=yes mtx: Request Sense: Valid Residual=no mtx: Request Sense: Error Code=70 (Current) mtx: Request Sense: Sense Key=Illegal Request mtx: Request Sense: FileMark=no mtx: Request Sense: EOM=no mtx: Request Sense: ILI=no mtx: Request Sense: Additional Sense Code = 25 mtx: Request Sense: Additional Sense Qualifier = 00 mtx: Request Sense: BPV=no mtx: Request Sense: Error in CDB=no mtx: Request Sense: SKSV=no Initialize Element Status (0x07) failed <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< mtx:inventory failed <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
# tapeinfo -f /dev/sg13 inquiry argc=4Usage: tapeinfo -f <generic-device> # tapeinfo -f /dev/sg13 Product Type: (null) Vendor ID: 'Over ' Product ID: 'NEO VIA FCO ' Revision: '2.20' Attached Changer API: No SCSI ID: 1 SCSI LUN: 0 Ready: no # # mtx -f /dev/sg13 inquiry Product Type: Unknown Vendor ID: 'Over ' Product ID: 'NEO VIA FCO ' Revision: '2.20' Attached Changer API: No # mtx -f /dev/sg13 altres status mtx: Request Sense: Long Report=yes mtx: Request Sense: Valid Residual=no mtx: Request Sense: Error Code=70 (Current) mtx: Request Sense: Sense Key=Illegal Request mtx: Request Sense: FileMark=no mtx: Request Sense: EOM=no mtx: Request Sense: ILI=no mtx: Request Sense: Additional Sense Code = 25 mtx: Request Sense: Additional Sense Qualifier = 00 mtx: Request Sense: BPV=no mtx: Request Sense: Error in CDB=no mtx: Request Sense: SKSV=no Mode sense (0x1A) for Page 0x1D failed mtx: Request Sense: Long Report=yes mtx: Request Sense: Valid Residual=no mtx: Request Sense: Error Code=70 (Current) mtx: Request Sense: Sense Key=Illegal Request mtx: Request Sense: FileMark=no mtx: Request Sense: EOM=no mtx: Request Sense: ILI=no mtx: Request Sense: Additional Sense Code = 25 mtx: Request Sense: Additional Sense Qualifier = 00 mtx: Request Sense: BPV=no mtx: Request Sense: Error in CDB=no mtx: Request Sense: SKSV=no READ ELEMENT STATUS Command Failed<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< # # mtx -f /dev/sg13 inventory mtx: Request Sense: Long Report=yes mtx: Request Sense: Valid Residual=no mtx: Request Sense: Error Code=70 (Current) mtx: Request Sense: Sense Key=Illegal Request mtx: Request Sense: FileMark=no mtx: Request Sense: EOM=no mtx: Request Sense: ILI=no mtx: Request Sense: Additional Sense Code = 25 mtx: Request Sense: Additional Sense Qualifier = 00 mtx: Request Sense: BPV=no mtx: Request Sense: Error in CDB=no mtx: Request Sense: SKSV=no Initialize Element Status (0x07) failed mtx:inventory failed <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< # David F. Gutierrez [email protected] Maxim Integrated Products 972-371-6190 -----Original Message----- From: Chris Hoogendyk [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 4:05 PM To: David Gutierrez Cc: Dustin J. Mitchell; amanda-users Subject: Re: Tape drive not working. David Gutierrez wrote: > Yes, it's a /dev/sg13 > # tapeinfo -f /dev/sg13 > Product Type: (null) > Vendor ID: 'Over ' > Product ID: 'NEO VIA FCO ' > Revision: '2.20' > Attached Changer API: No > SCSI ID: 1 > SCSI LUN: 0 > Ready: no > # > > > David F. Gutierrez > [email protected] > Maxim Integrated Products > 972-371-6190 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dustin J. > Mitchell > Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 3:13 PM > To: David Gutierrez > Cc: amanda-users > Subject: Re: Tape drive not working. > > On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 1:17 PM, David Gutierrez > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> # mtx -f /dev/sg13 inquiry >> Product Type: Unknown >> > > The system doesn't seem to think this is a tape robot. Do you have > the right sg##? Has it ever worked? Or are you just installing it? I don't have your particular type of library (apparently an Overland?), and I'm on Solaris rather than Linux, but . . . Typically, you would have to install the driver for your tape drive and also the driver for your changer. That might mean editing the driver files to give them the right parameters, which can be dicey, but the vendor should provide details so that it is just following their directions (backup the device files before editing them!!). On Solaris there would be a reconfigure reboot after that. Then mtx would work. However, be sure you understand that the /dev/sg13 that you might give to mt or tapeinfo is not the same as the changer device that you would give mtx. So, for example, on my Solaris systems, I might have `mt -f /dev/rmt/1n`, whereas, mtx would be `mtx -f /dev/scsi/changer/c2t0d0 status`. Check `man mtx`, or go to http://linux.die.net/man/1/mtx. See the section on how to find your changer device. -- --------------- Chris Hoogendyk - O__ ---- Systems Administrator c/ /'_ --- Biology & Geology Departments (*) \(*) -- 140 Morrill Science Center ~~~~~~~~~~ - University of Massachusetts, Amherst <[email protected]> --------------- Erdös 4
