Questions re: the chg-scsi documentation

2005-08-13 Thread Marcus
I was going through those pages a bit this morning and had a few questions..; Firstly, at the Configuration Notes it says I should be able to get the changer value with modprobe sg. That command returns nothing; which doesn't seem right? But if I do a modprobe sg -l then I get:

Does Attached Changer matter in mtx inquiry?

2005-08-13 Thread Marcus
Here's what I get [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ sudo /usr/sbin/mtx -f /dev/sg0 inquiry Product Type: Tape Drive Vendor ID: 'QUANTUM ' Product ID: 'DLT8000 ' Revision: '0232' Attached Changer: No [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ sudo /usr/sbin/mtx -f /dev/sg1 inquiry Product Type: Medium Changer Vendor ID: 'ADIC

Re: Does Attached Changer matter in mtx inquiry?

2005-08-13 Thread Michael Loftis
No. Attached Changer in this context I believe means SCSI attachment...something very different from physical attachment. In any case I've only seen one changer that reported as attached. And IIRC it definitely had ot do with it's SCSI bus behaviour. So it's not saying no changer...it's

Re: Tape drive device files

2005-08-13 Thread Glenn English
On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 11:14 -0400, Matt Hyclak wrote: On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 10:51:51AM -0400, LaValley, Brian E enlightened us: Can someone point me to a good educational site for /dev information? I have attached a tape drive to my machine, but I can't find the special files. I know it

Re: Does Attached Changer matter in mtx inquiry?

2005-08-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 13 August 2005 16:29, Marcus wrote: Here's what I get [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ sudo /usr/sbin/mtx -f /dev/sg0 inquiry Product Type: Tape Drive Vendor ID: 'QUANTUM ' Product ID: 'DLT8000 ' Revision: '0232' Attached Changer: No [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ sudo /usr/sbin/mtx -f /dev/sg1

RE: Questions re: the chg-scsi documentation

2005-08-13 Thread Scott R. Burns
I had the core dump problem with chg-scsi as well. I am on NetBSD/i386 V2.0.2. I did a couple of things, of the two I am not sure if both were required but: I am running a HP SureStore DAT24x6 changer. The first was: I set my changerident to: C1553A. (The closest value defined in chg-scsi to my