On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 at 1:58pm, Michael Scaglione wrote

> Greetings, this is my first posting to this list. Please excuse any 
> oversights on my part. 

Getting Outbreak to put in some line breaks would be nice.  Not using it 
would be even nicer.

> I am attempting to configure an ADIC SCALAR 480 auto changer. This is 
> an OEM auto-changer with a single tape changer, 2 AIT-2 drives and 80 
> tape slots.
> 
> While attempting to configure Amanda I run the command : 
> sta-36 libexec]#  ./chg-scsi -info
> 
> which returns this error : 
> 
> Can't read STE status
> 
> I can find no reference to this error in any of the archives. I don't 
> understand what it means. However, I can  access the tape changer 
> directly as /dev/sg0 and make mtx load and unload tapes directly.  The 
> command "mtx -d /dev/sg0 load 2 0" will stuff the appropriate AIT 
> cartridge into the first drive. I have also confirmed that the tape 
> devices, /dev/st0 and /dev/st1, as well as their no-rewind counterpart 
> devices are functioning properly.

If you've got mtx working, why not use the chg-zd-mtx changer rather than 
chg-scsi?  Directions for setting up the configuration file are in the 
chg-zd-mtx script in (by default) /usr/local/libexec.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University