thanks for you quick reply Jean-Louis,

this is the last amtape.debug file

amtape: debug 1 pid 31538 ruid 33 euid 33 start time Mon Dec  2 13:07:33 2002
changer: got exit: 0 str: 2 7 1
changer: got exit: 0 str: 2 /dev/nst0
changer: got exit: 0 str: /usr/local/libexec/chg-zd-mtx: [: 3: unary operator 
expected
changer: got exit: 0 str: /usr/local/libexec/chg-zd-mtx: [: 4: unary operator 
expected
changer: got exit: 0 str: /usr/local/libexec/chg-zd-mtx: [: 5: unary operator 
expected
changer: got exit: 0 str: /usr/local/libexec/chg-zd-mtx: [: 6: unary operator 
expected
changer: got exit: 0 str: /usr/local/libexec/chg-zd-mtx: [: 7: unary operator 
expected
changer: got exit: 0 str: /usr/local/libexec/chg-zd-mtx: [: 1: unary operator 
expected
amtape: pid 31538 finish time Mon Dec  2 13:17:00 2002

this is the CHANGER.conf file

firstslot=1
lastslot=7
offlinestatus=1
havereader=0
autocleancount=50
AUTOCLEAN=0
OFFLINE_BEFORE_UNLOAD=1
cleanslot=0

is there anything else. do these files look ok??
thanks again chrisj






Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:

On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 10:41:07AM -0600, Chris Johnson wrote:

Hi list.
  I'm having a funny problem with my tape changer. first:
I''m using chg-zd-mtx script
i have amanda-2.4.2p2
I'm using an adic fastor 4000.
all on redhat linux 7.2

Recently amanda can't find a good tape. my label regex is correct and tapes are labeled correctly. The first tape scanned with either amtape command or amcheck reads the correct lable. But none of the other labels are read. ie.

amtape: scanning all 7 slots in tape-changer rack:
slot 7: date X        label ARCHIVE112702#2
slot /usr/local/libexec/chg-zd-mtx:: no tape online
slot /usr/local/libexec/chg-zd-mtx:: no tape online
slot /usr/local/libexec/chg-zd-mtx:: no tape online
slot /usr/local/libexec/chg-zd-mtx:: no tape online
slot /usr/local/libexec/chg-zd-mtx:: no tape online
slot /usr/local/libexec/chg-zd-mtx:: no tape online

I've changed the OFFLINE_BEFORE_UNLOAD and offlinestatus options in the CHANGER.conf file. this has worked before. I believe that all I've done differently is to begin labeling more blank tapes. We got a new shipment of dlt tapes and I haven't changed the number of tapes amanada knows about. I didn't think amanda would care if she was given a new tape each run untill I had labeled and used all the new tapes.

Has anyone else had this problem??
Can anyone tell me where I should begin looking??

In the debug file!

Is it the first time you use '#' in a label, maybe the changer don't
like it.

Jean-Louis