On Saturday 04 September 2004 11:16, Jon LaBadie wrote:
>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.

Which, if I read the docs well enough, won't run a seagate 4586 
changer.  Me goes off and beats head on wall.

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