On Sun, Apr 20, 2003 at 05:38:06PM +0200, diesing AT snowflake DOT de wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm a complete newbie to amanda (ver. 2.4.4) and I'm trying to install it on
> a machine running SuSE 8.1 with a HP SureStore 24x6 (DDS3 changer)
> conntected via an adaptec 2940. I'm using the chg-zd-mtx script and got
> quite far with the recommended tests.
> 
> My problem is that "chg-zd-mtx -slot next" always produces some kind of
> error. This could either be:
> 
> 3 mtx: Request Sense: Long Report=yes
> mtx: Request Sense: Valid Residual=no
> mtx: Request Sense: Error Code=70 (Current)
> mtx: Request Sense: Sense Key=Medium Error
> mtx: Request Sense: FileMark=no
> mtx: Request Sense: EOM=no
> mtx: Request Sense: ILI=no
> mtx: Request Sense: Additional Sense Code = 52
> mtx: Request Sense: Additional Sense Qualifier = 00
> mtx: Request Sense: BPV=no
> mtx: Request Sense: Error in CDB=no
> mtx: Request Sense: SKSV=no
> MOVE MEDIUM from Element Address 4 to 1 Failed
> 
> or, doing it right again:
> 
> 3 Drive not ready after 120 seconds, rewind said "/usr/bin/mt: /dev/sg0:
> Operation not permitted"
> 
> Since I'm always getting one of the two possibilities, I'm a bit unsure
> about where to start searching. I read about putting some delays in the
> script might help, but I've no clue where to put them and I lost the URL of
> the page :(
> 
> Hope one of u guys can help me.

Not sure, I'm not a linux person, but I think somewhere you have a device
specification wrong.  Changers, like your SureStore, have to be thought of
as 2 different devices, the changer mechanism and the tape drive itself.

mt only works on tape drives
mtx only works on tape changer mechanisms

IIRC your tape drive is probably /dev/nst0 (n for no rewind, st for scsi tape).
Your changer mechanism is sg0.  Somehow mt is trying to work on the sg device.
Probably a simple "device /dev/sg0", or "tapedev /dev/sg0", or ??? should be
changed.  Which I know not.


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