I'm trying to get this puppy to work with 3 tapes for now, i can control the robot fine with the mtx program but amanda keeps giving me :
bash-2.04$ /usr/local/sbin/amlabel bef Test01 slot 2 amlabel: could not load slot "2": could not determine current slot, are you sure your drive slot is 2 I put the tape from slot 1 in the drive, it knows theres one in slot 2 and 3 but it keeps complaining about the 'current' slot. >From what i can tell the output of the mtx command is in a format the regex's from the glue script should match. changer.conf ------------------------------------ firstslot=1 # First slot lastslot=3 # Last slot cleanslot=-1 # Don't use a cleaning tape slot driveslot=0 # This is the slot of the drive havereader=0 # Do not use the barcode reader autoclean=0 # Do not autoclean offline_before_unload=0 # Does not require offline before unload havebarcode=0 amanda.conf (snippet) ------------------------------------- runtapes 1 tapedev "/dev/pass2" changerdev "/dev/pass3" tapetype IBM-LTO3580 mtx results ------------------------------------- bash-2.04$ /usr/local/sbin/mtx -f /dev/pass3 status Storage Changer /dev/pass3:1 Drives, 20 Slots ( 1 Import/Export ) Data Transfer Element 0:Full (Storage Element 1 Loaded):VolumeTag = Storage Element 1:Empty:VolumeTag= Storage Element 2:Full :VolumeTag= Storage Element 3:Full :VolumeTag= Storage Element 4:Empty:VolumeTag= Storage Element 5:Empty:VolumeTag= Storage Element 6:Empty:VolumeTag= Storage Element 7:Empty:VolumeTag= Storage Element 8:Empty:VolumeTag= Storage Element 9:Empty:VolumeTag= Storage Element 10:Empty:VolumeTag= Storage Element 11:Empty:VolumeTag= Storage Element 12:Empty:VolumeTag= Storage Element 13:Empty:VolumeTag= Storage Element 14:Empty:VolumeTag= Storage Element 15:Empty:VolumeTag= Storage Element 16:Empty:VolumeTag= Storage Element 17:Empty:VolumeTag= Storage Element 18:Empty:VolumeTag= Storage Element 19:Empty:VolumeTag= Storage Element 20 IMPORT/EXPORT:Empty:VolumeTag= bash-2.04$ /usr/local/sbin/mtx -f /dev/pass2 inquiry Product Type: Tape Drive Vendor ID: 'IBM ' Product ID: 'ULTRIUM-TD1 ' Revision: '12U2' Attached Changer: No bash-2.04$ /usr/local/sbin/mtx -f /dev/pass3 inquiry Product Type: Medium Changer Vendor ID: 'HP ' Product ID: 'C7200 ' Revision: '126I' Attached Changer: No does anyone have any experience with these ? With best regards, Armand Sulter - Systems Administration ******************************************************************** ENTER.NET - "The Road to the Internet Starts Here!" (tm) (610) 437-2221 * http://www.enter.net/ * email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ********************************************************************