On Tuesday 04 February 2003 10:33, John Cunningham wrote:
>Hello alll - I'm doing a first time setup (and I'm new at tape
> drives in general) and ran in to some glitches - any help would
> be greatly appreciated.
>
>I'm running a SCSI IBM DDS-4 120 / 240 6 tape changer on a RedHat
> Linux 7.3 system.
>
>Here's the chain of events.  I set up the configuration script
> using a standard chg-multi and got to the point where I was
> labeling tapes (I'm moving through instructions in O'Reily's
> "Unix Backup and Recovery") and realized that while I could read
> and label the tapes, I had issues with auto-changing.  When slot
> 1 was loaded and I attempted to run the labeling command for slot
> 2, slot one would eject then the loader would just quit,
> eventually resulting in an error with the amlabel program.
>
>So I though perhaps the problem lies in that I'm not using a
> chg-scsi setup.  I grabbed the example chg-scsi-linux file and
> edited it then pointed the configuration file to it.  Here's a
> chunk from my amanda.conf file:
>
>runtapes 1              # number of tapes to be used in a single
> run of amdump tpchanger "/dumps/amanda/chg-scsi.conf" # the
> tape-changer glue script tapedev "/dev/sg1"      # the no-rewind
> tape device to be used rawtapedev "/dev/nst0"  # the raw device
> to be used (ftape only) #changerfile "/dumps/amanda/changer"
>#changerfile "/dumps/amanda/changer-status"
>#changerfile "/dumps/amanda/changer.conf"
>changerfile "/dumps/amanda/changer.conf"
>changerdev "/dev/sg2"
>
>Here's the setup from my chg-scsi file - the idea is clost 1-5 for
> tapes and 6 for a cleaner:
>
>   UW PICO(tm) 4.2                                 File:
> /dumps/amanda/chg-scsi.conf
>
>#chg-scsi-linux.conf
>
>number_configs  1
>eject           1       # Tapedrives need an eject command
>sleep           90      # Seconds to wait until the tape gets
> ready cleanmax        100     # How many times could a cleaning
> tape get used changerdev      /dev/sg2
>#
># Next comes the data for drive 0
>#
>config          0
>drivenum        0
>dev             /dev/nst0
>scsitapedev     /dev/sg1
>startuse        0       # The slots associated with the drive 0
>enduse          5       #
>statfile        /usr/local/etc/amanda/Daily/tape0-slot  # The file
> where the actual slot is stored cleancart       6       # the
> slot where the cleaningcartridge for drive 0 is located cleanfile
>       /usr/local/etc/amanda/Daily/tape0-clean # The file where
> the cleanings are recorded usagecount     
> /usr/local/etc/amanda/Daily/totaltime
>tapestatus      /usr/local/etc/amanda/Daily/tapestatus # here will
> some status infos be stored #labelfile     
> /usr/local/etc/amanda/Daily/labelfile # Use this if you have an
> barcode reader
>
>and lastly my changer.conf file....
>
>
># lines from chg-multi.com
>
>
># For changers that need an 'mt offline' to load the next tape
>multieject 0
>
># Is this a gravity stacker that can't go backwards or cycle ?  If
># yes, set gravity to 1.
>gravity 0
>
># Does this tape-changer need an explicit eject command before
> loading # a new tape?  If you are using multiple drives as a tape
> changer, you # don't want to do this, but if you are using an
> auto-changer that # allows access to the slots through Unix tape
> devices, it might block # the mount of a new slot until the old
> is explicitly ejected.  In # that case, set needeject to 1.
>needeject 0
>
># On some machines there is a delay between when the eject command
># finishes and the next tape is ready to be accessed.  Set
> ejectdelay # to the number of seconds to wait after an eject
> command. This will # almost certainly be needed if multieject is
> set, probably not if # needeject is used.
>ejectdelay 0
>
># Names a status file where the current ``changer'' state is
> stored. statefile /usr/adm/amanda/csd/changer-status
>
># What are the slot numbers used in the tape rack?
>firstslot 1
>lastslot 6

chg-scsi I know lists the slots in base 0 numeration, so firstslot=0 
etc.

># Enumerate the device files that go with the particular tape
> changer # slots. Don't forget to specify the no-rewind version of
> the device. slot 1 /dev/sg2
>slot 2 /dev/sg2
>slot 3 /dev/sg2
>slot 4 /dev/sg2
>slot 5 /dev/sg2
>slot 6 /dev/sg2
>
>When I run the labeler I get this error:
>
>amlabel: could not load slot "1": could not read result from
> "/dumps/amanda/chg-scsi.conf"
>
>I'm sure the list of things I am doing wrong is long and humerous
> - but any help would be greatly appreciated....
>
>-John

I'll send you my amanda.conf and chg-scsi.conf in seperate email 
John.  Adjust the slot numbers and anything else obvious and it 
should work.

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