--On Monday, October 13, 2003 16:18:28 +0100 Tom Brown <tom.brown AT 
goodtechnology DOT com> wrote:

>> to follow up to myself here i have managed to get the single drive working
>> fine - The issue now seems to be with the changer.
>> 
>> Using mtx i can load and unload tapes but when i run amcheck i get the
>> following error
>> 
>> amcheck-server: could not get changer info: could not determine current
>> slot, are you sure your drive slot is 1
>> 
>> I have changed all references to nst0 to point to nst1 in my config for
> this
>> setup but still this error - i have searched the archives for this one but
>> can't seem to find a solution.
> 
> i'm still having an issue and here is an output from the latest debug from
> chg-zd-mtx
> 
> $ more /tmp/amanda/chg-zd-mtx.20031013170311.debug
> chg-zd-mtx: debug 1 pid 2919 ruid 11 euid 11: start at Mon Oct 13 17:03:11
> 2003
> 17:03:11 Arg info:
>          $# = 1
>          $0 = "../../libexec/chg-zd-mtx"
>          $1 = "-info"
> 17:03:11 Running: /opt/mtx/sbin/mtx status
> 17:03:11 Exit code: 0
>          Stdout:
>   Storage Changer /dev/sg2:1 Drives, 6 Slots ( 0 Import/Export )
> Data Transfer Element 0:Empty
>       Storage Element 1:Full
>       Storage Element 2:Full
>       Storage Element 3:Full
>       Storage Element 4:Full
>       Storage Element 5:Full
>       Storage Element 6:Full
> 17:03:11 Config info:
>          firstslot = "1"
>          lastslot = "5"
>          cleanslot = "-1"
>          cleancycle = "120"
>          offline_before_unload = "1"
>          unloadpause = "0"
>          autoclean = "0"
>          autocleancount = "99"
>          havereader = "0"
>          driveslot = "1"
>          poll_drive_ready = "3"
>          max_drive_wait = "120"
> 17:03:11 Exit (2) -> <none> could not determine current slot, are you sure
> your drive slot is 1
> chg-zd-mtx: pid 3060 finish time Mon Oct 13 17:03:11 2003
> 
> really not having much luck with this idea of having 2 drives on one
> machine.
> 
> thanks
> 

Make sure that each amanda.conf specifies a different changerfile.
Each changerfile needs chgtapedev set to a different tape drive
(just use the single digit [0,1,2...]).
If both tape drives are in the same changer, you need to specify a different
range of slots for each amanda config.

Frank



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