Dear list,
We have recently acquired a Dell PowerVault TL2000 tape library. It has
an LTO-4 drive, 2 magazines with a total of 24 slots including an import
/ export slot on slot 24:
Storage Changer /dev/changer:1 Drives, 24 Slots ( 1 Import/Export )
Data Transfer Element 0:Full (Storage Element 22 Loaded):VolumeTag =
000003L4
Storage Element 1:Full :VolumeTag=000006L4
...
Storage Element 22:Empty
Storage Element 23:Full :VolumeTag=000013L4
Storage Element 24 IMPORT/EXPORT:Full :VolumeTag=000025L4
I hadn't looked too closely when setting it up, but I just pulled a tape
and noticed that it wasn't happy with that slot 24:
[ama...@clare tl00]$ amlabel tl00 TL000025 slot 24
changer: got exit: 2 str: Cannot find slot 24 in slot list ( 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23)
amlabel: could not load slot "24": Cannot find slot 24 in slot list ( 1 2 3 4 5
6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23)
amlabel: could not load slot "24": Cannot find slot 24 in slot list ( 1 2 3 4 5
6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23)
amlabel: pid 16162 finish time Mon May 3 11:54:46 201
So you can see it looks like it's only seeing slots 1-23. My
changer.conf is very basic:
firstslot=1 #### First storage slot (element) -- required
lastslot=24 #### Last storage slot (element) -- required
cleanslot=-1 #### Slot with cleaner tape -- default is "-1"
driveslot=0 #### Drive slot number. Defaults to 0
havereader=1 #### If you have a barcode reader, set to 1.
I am running amanda-server-2.5.0p2-8.el5 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Server release 5.4 (Tikanga).
Is there something I am missing? I wouldn't be so worried about
limiting the library to 23 slots except that slot 24 is the
import/export slot so it would be a bit of a PITA to work around that
one while changing tapes.
Thanks in advance,
- Dominic
