Gene,

you were absolutely right!

When I was configuring amanda, I ran

# ./chg-scsi -genconf

to generate the chg-scsi.conf file for my Tape Changer.  By default, it 
included emubarcode & havebarcode.  By commenting these options from the file, 
I no longer received those error messages.

-Rob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gene Heskett [mailto:gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net]
> Sent: Friday, May 28, 2004 5:07 PM
> To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
> Subject: Re: MapBarCode error
> 
> 
> On Friday 28 May 2004 15:31, Dege, Robert C. wrote:
> >Hello all,
> >
> >when I try to run amcheck, I keep getting a MapBarCode error, which
> > causes amcheck to exit tape scanning prematurely.  Here's a snippet
> > of output:
> >
> >bash$ amcheck simnet
> >Amanda Tape Server Host Check
> >-----------------------------
> >Holding disk /mnt/raid/holding: 3250292 KB disk space available,
> > that's plenty amcheck-server: slot 3: date 20180417 label SIMNET-04
> > (active tape) amcheck-server: fatal slot MapBarCode,: DB Version
> > does not match ERROR: new tape not found in rack
> >       (expecting a new tape)
> >NOTE: skipping tape-writable test
> >Server check took 141.154 seconds
> >
> >Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
> >--------------------------------
> >Client check: 2 hosts checked in 0.121 seconds, 0 problems found
> >
> >
> >Does anyone know why I'm getting this error message?  I'm using
> > amanda with a Qualstar TLS-4222 with (2) SDX-700C AIT3 tape drives.
> >  There is no BarCode reader in the unit.
> >
> >-Rob
> 
> It sounds as if you may have either emubarcode, or something similar 
> in your amanda.conf.  There are a couple of keywords in amanda that 
> (I've surveyed the code in question) if found, default to yes, so the 
> only way to shut things up is to comment those lines out.  I believe 
> thats one of them.
> 
> -- 
> Cheers, Gene
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