Re: General Changer Questions (chg-mtx)

2002-04-02 Thread John R. Jackson
>1) Is this entire section concerned with determining if the next >tape is the cleaning tape? IOW, is the purpose of the DD to see if we >are reading a cleaning tape? No. The purpose appears to be to write the Amanda tape label (i.e. which tape it is) to the log file. It has nothing to do wi

General Changer Questions (chg-mtx)

2002-04-02 Thread John Koenig
In the files, chg-manual and chg-mtx there is a function in the code labelled loadslot(). In this funciton the dd command is used to look at the tape. I have excerpted some code from chg-mtx, below... This appears to be post-processing code following that event wherein a tape is newly inserte

Re: changer questions

2001-06-04 Thread Jason Hollinden
On Mon, 04 Jun 2001, Sandra Panesso wrote: > Hi everybody: > > I have a HP surestore 24X6 autoloader and I using chg-zd-mtx > configuration file with > dev /dev/nst0 > scsitapedev /dev/sgb > startuse 0 > enduse5 > statfile /usr/loc

changer questions

2001-06-04 Thread Sandra Panesso
Hi everybody: I have a HP surestore 24X6 autoloader and I using chg-zd-mtx configuration file with dev /dev/nst0 scsitapedev /dev/sgb startuse0 enduse 5 statfile/usr/local/etc/amanda/miro_daily/tape0-slot the thing is that I hav