I have a Spectra 2000 as well but I have had no problems with the changer
acting like you've described.
I never did get chg-scsi to work rights and I wrote a little Perl script that
uses mtx and mt. If you are interested it is at:
http://www.heronforge.net/programs/chg-spectra.pl
On Tuesday April 15 2003 03:45 pm, Derek Suzuki wrote:
> I have configured Amanda 2.4.4 on a Linux PC with an Adaptec
> differential SCSI card and a Spectralogic Treefrog (AIT-2, 15-tape)
> changer. My test rotation uses chg-scsi, with the changer.conf file
> attached at the end of this message. amtape segfaulted while I was
> labeling my tapes, but the labels seemed to get recorded properly. "amtape
> <conf> update" segfaults while reading the first tape.
> Amanda seems to run okay if I just let it run unattended. However,
> if I try to tell the changer to switch to an arbitrary slot, the robot gets
> confused about which tape goes into which real slot. For example, it might
> claim to be checking the tape in slot 2, but when the tape is unloaded it
> will actually end up in slot 4. Is this sort of thing normal? I had hoped
> to split the changer slots between two configurations, but that doesn't
> appear to work at all.
> Meanwhile, I'm not sure whether the barcode reader is actually being
> used. Amanda does generate an accurate labelfile (though I didn't find a
> standard way to turn that into text format), but it still sometimes seems
> like it needs to load and read the tapes in order to identify them.
> Anyway, my backup rotation does seem to basically work. I'm just
> concerned about the changer confusion and wanted to see if this was a
> common problem.
>
> Derek Suzuki
> dsuzuki AT ziprealty DOT com
>
>
> # Configuration for chg-scsi tool
> number_configs 1
> eject 0
> sleep 90
> cleanmax 100
> changerdev /dev/sgb
>
> # Configuration for drive #0
> config 0
> drivenum 0
> dev /dev/nst0
> havebarcode 1
> startuse 0
> enduse 14
> statfile /var/lib/amanda/ziptest/tape0-slot
> usagecount /var/lib/amanda/ziptest/totaltime
> tapestatus /var/lib/amanda/ziptest/tapestatus
> labelfile /var/lib/amanda/ziptest/labelfile
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