I don't have

OFFLINE_BEFORE_UNLOAD=1 #### Does your tape driver require a
#                         #### 'mt offline' before mtx unload?

in my changer.conf.  Did you find for some reason it was needed?

Ron

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Brown [mailto:tom.brown AT goodtechnology DOT com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 5:21 AM
To: Ron Bauman; amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Subject: Re: strange am-label issue




I had a similar problem with a Sony SDX-500C drive.  I found the changer
script wasn't waiting for the tape to really become ready.  Using 2.4.4,
chg-zd-mtx and adding this to changer.conf solved the problem:

offlinestatus=1           #### Set to 0 if 'mt status' gives an
#                         #### "offline" when drive is offline.
#                         #### Set to 1 or greater if 'mt status'
#                         #### doesn't give and offline, rather an
#                         #### "ONLINE" when drive is online.

Hi,

That's what i have - The drive is a HP-DDS4 DAT40x6 autoloader and ny
change.conf looks like this

firstslot=1             #### 1st tape slot
lastslot=6             #### Last tape slot
# cleanslot=0             #### Slot with cleaner tape
AUTOCLEAN=0             #### Set to '1' or greater to enable
autocleancount=99       #### Number of access before a clean.
havereader=0            #### If you have a barcode reader, set to 1.
offlinestatus=1         #### Set to 0 if 'mt status' gives an
#                         #### "offline" when drive is offline.
#                         #### Set to 1 or greater if 'mt status'
#                         #### doesn't give and offline, rather an
#                         #### "ONLINE" when drive is online.
#
OFFLINE_BEFORE_UNLOAD=1 #### Does your tape driver require a
#                         #### 'mt offline' before mtx unload?
tapedev=/dev/nst0

I have 6 taes in there and no cleaning tape -

My amcheck reports....

$ amcheck gt-log
Amanda Tape Server Host Check
-----------------------------
Holding disk /scratch/amanda: 20088512 KB disk space available, that's
plenty
amcheck-server: slot 6: date X        label gt-log06 (first labelstr match)
amcheck-server: slot 5: date X        label gt-log05 (labelstr match)
amcheck-server: slot 2: date X        label gt-log02 (labelstr match)
amcheck-server: slot 2: date X        label gt-log02 (labelstr match)
amcheck-server: slot 2: date X        label gt-log02 (labelstr match)
amcheck-server: slot 2: date X        label gt-log02 (labelstr match)
NOTE: skipping tape-writable test
Tape gt-log06 label ok

all tapes are labelled and new so thats why it says it'll use tape 06 rather
than 01

pasted below is part of the debug logs - why is it reporting that the
current slot is not available?

Tom

$ more chg-zd-mtx.20030617110112.debug
chg-zd-mtx: debug 1 pid 2176 ruid 11 euid 11: start at Tue Jun 17 11:01:12
2003
11:01:12 Arg info:
         $# = 2
         $0 = "/opt/amanda-2.4.4/libexec/chg-zd-mtx"
         $1 = "-slot"
         $2 = "next"
11:01:12 Running: /opt/mtx/sbin/mtx status
11:01:12 Exit code: 0
         Stdout:
  Storage Changer /dev/sg2:1 Drives, 6 Slots ( 0 Import/Export )
Data Transfer Element 0:Full (Storage Element 2 Loaded)
      Storage Element 1:Full
      Storage Element 2:Empty
      Storage Element 3:Full
      Storage Element 4:Full
      Storage Element 5:Full
      Storage Element 6:Full
11:01:12 Config info:
         firstslot = "1"
         lastslot = "6"
         cleanslot = "-1"
         cleancycle = "120"
         offline_before_unload = "1"
         unloadpause = "0"
         autoclean = "0"
         autocleancount = "99"
         havereader = "0"
         driveslot = "0"
         poll_drive_ready = "3"
         max_drive_wait = "120"
11:01:12 WARNING  -> current slot 2 not available, setting current slot to
next slot (6)
11:01:12 LOADSLOT -> load drive 0 (/dev/nst0) from slot next
11:01:12 STATUS   -> currently loaded slot = 2
                  -> currently loaded barcode = ""
11:01:12 Exit (0) -> 2 /dev/nst0
chg-zd-mtx: pid 2333 finish time Tue Jun 17 11:01:12 2003