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Re: SCSI Autoloader setup

2003-02-05 02:51:27
Subject: Re: SCSI Autoloader setup
From: Gene Heskett <gene_heskett AT iolinc DOT net>
To: John Cunningham <johnw_cunningham AT yahoo DOT com>
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 02:19:35 -0500
On Tuesday 04 February 2003 23:32, John Cunningham wrote:
>Gene (and anybody else who may be up),
>
>I got this set up, but when running the label utility
>I get the following:
>
>sbin]$ ./amlabel Daily Daily-01 slot 0
>amlabel: could not load slot "0": open: /dev/sg1: Bad
>file descriptor

Humm, if, and only if I think, you have all that scsi emulation 
compiled into the kernel so it can find it during the bott process, 
you wull find the proper device is named in the /var/log/dmesg 
file.  It should look something like this in that case.
----------------------
Linux version 2.4.21-pre3 (root AT coyote.coyote DOT den) (gcc version 3.2 
20020903 (Red Hat Linux 8.0 3.2-7)) #6 Sat Feb 1 22:32:59 EST 2003
[snip down to the meat & potatoes]
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
scsi0 : AdvanSys SCSI 3.3G: PCI Ultra: IO 0xD000-0xD00F, IRQ 0xB
  Vendor: ARCHIVE   Model: 4586XX 28887-XXX  Rev: 0420
  Type:   Sequential-Access                  ANSI SCSI revision: 02
  Vendor: ARCHIVE   Model: 4586XX 28887-XXX  Rev: 0420
  Type:   Medium Changer                     ANSI SCSI revision: 02
scsi1 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
  Vendor: CREATIVE  Model: CD-RW RW1210E     Rev: LCS6
  Type:   CD-ROM                             ANSI SCSI revision: 02
st: Version 20020805, bufsize 32768, wrt 30720, max init. bufs 4, 
s/g segs 16
Attached scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0
Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 32x/32x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
Attached scsi generic sg1 at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 1,  type 8
-------------------------
The last line above should properly identify the robot devices 
/dev/name, in this case sg1.  Note also the 'lun 1' in that line 
above, you must have the option in the scsi portions of the kernel 
config file set for 'scan all luns' else it will not find a non 
zero logical unit number when scanning the bus at boot time.  This 
means you may have to rebuild the kernel to get this turned on.

>I'm going to keep playing, but in the meantime any
>insight would be greatly appreciated...

Thats my best shot at 2:20 am.  If thats not it...  Its past this 
old mans bedtime anyway. :)

[...]

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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