On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 02:08:58AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Saturday 04 September 2004 01:43, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> >On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 11:59:10PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >>
> >> The last time that situation came up here Jon, having runtapes > 1
> >> didn't help.  Due to the lack of a working ioctl for rewind in
> >> amanda or chg-scsi, it failed.  But thats nothing new.  Apparently
> >> I have the only system in the world that from amanda-2.4.1 and
> >> RH6.2 through FC2 and whatever the last amanda-2.4.4/5b/px is, and
> >> 3 mobo/cpu replacements for where the drive lived, still cannot
> >> rewind a tape with anything but mt.  Am I nuts?  Rhetorical,
> >> please don't anwser that!
> >
> >Works here regularly.  Recently I was so negligent I ran my
> >abundant holding disks out of space by never replacing worn
> >out tapes.  Amanda stopped working, no place to put the data.
> >
> >When I finally labeled some new tapes and did an amflush,
> >it took all 4 tapes it could and still left a lot in the
> >holding disks.  Next night it autoflushed during the regular
> >amdump and took 2 tapes.
> 
> Are you using chg-scsi?

No, I've used chg-mtx and sometimes chg-zd-mtx.

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