On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 12:53:54AM -0700, Michael Robbert wrote:
> Gene Heskett wrote:
> 
> >On Wednesday 12 February 2003 19:23, Michael Robbert wrote:
> > 
> >
> >Gaack! Either its not advancing the magazine, or you've labeled all tapes
> >alike. If the latter, I'm fairly certain that amlabel would have had a
> >litter of kittens over that.
> >
> >Which is it?
> >
> Neither, I have watched it advance the tapes and you can tell by the 
> fact that it loaded a cleaning tape from slot 6 that different tapes are 
> getting used. And I am sure that I labeled all these tapes properly, I 
> had to use -f because amlabel thought they were labeled even before I 
> labeled them.  I also know that this isn't acurate because when I watch 
> the drive it loads the tape, but never rewinds or reads the tape to see 
> what label is actually on it.
> 

It can take a very short time to read 32KB, that is all that is done.

Does your tapelist file show all the tapes you labeled?

Can you manually do manipulate the changer, load each slot in turn
and run  "amtape <config> current".  This should show what is really
in each slot.

Assuming there is the correct tape in each slot I'd then guess something
in the changer hardware/software (likely the latter) is reporting that
the changer is changing but not actually doing the job properly.  Though
you say you do see the mechanism working, maybe something in the changer
status files is not being updated.

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