Greets everybody;

I may have found a bug/feature thats crept into the later versions of 
amanda, and which might even be 2.6.0 related as I'm currently booted 
to 2.6.0-test9.

Anyway, if the drive has not had a tape loaded manualy, or with mtx, 
amcheck seems to be unable to access the drive and hangs essentially 
forever.  But with a tape loaded, it can then go ahead and inventory 
the changer looking for the right tape.

I didn't have to preload the drive with the version I was running in 
mid-august before I spent 2 months in Colorado, so this is a fairly 
recent developement.

Currently running the 2.4.4p1-20031030 version on RH8.0 with lots of 
updates, using chg-scsi to run the changer.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M
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