I'm with Jay.  I have an L20 running two DLT8000s and there's been no issue 
with the robotics or the drives.

> On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 11:19:45AM +0100, Marco Schierloh wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > planning for a new backup-strategy I am investigating the possibility to use
> > amanda with a HP Surestore 2/20 Tape Library with one ultrium drive. Does
> > anyone have experience with this setup or does amanda not support this
> > hardware?
> 
> I'm using:
> 
> Sun L20 (re-badged HP 2/20) with Ultrium LTO
> SPARC Solaris 8
> mtx 1.2.16rel with sgen(7D) driver per contrib/config_sgen_solaris.sh
> Amanda 2.4.2p2 with chg-zd-mtx
> 
> Works perfectly, I had to make a one-line change in chg-zd-mtx.  Amanda
> 2.4.3 is recommended; chg-zd-mtx got a lot of work done on it.
> 
> Make sure the changer firmware is up-to-date.  I've talked to another
> L20 user who was having mtx problems, but they had older firmware
> (Anne, did the firmware download fix your problem?).  FWIW, I've got:
> 
> orion:/home/jayl 1> mtx -f /dev/scsi/changer/c4t4d0 inquiry
> Product Type: Medium Changer
> Vendor ID: 'HP      '
> Product ID: 'C7200           '
> Revision: '133S'
> Attached Changer: No
> 
> The LTO drives are great.  I routinely get 15-20MB/s taper rates (HW
> compression on).
> 
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