> my question may be a vendor specific one or may be a mtx-changer
> question. My Quantum autochanger has 5 Import/Export slots, which
> basically are just better accessible tape slots. Mtx displays the slots
> as I/E slots. But tapes in those slots are not recognised by Bacula.
> See
> attached console output.
> 
> Is there a way Bacula can use those I/E slots like any other slot?

A quick look at the mtx-changer script shows that these lines are probably 
causing you the trouble... they're inside the section for the "list" command:

     if test ${vxa_packetloader} -ne 0 ; then
        cat ${TMPFILE} | grep " *Storage Element [0-9]*:.*Full" | sed "s/ 
Storage Element //" | sed "s/Full :VolumeTag=//"
      else
        cat ${TMPFILE} | grep " Storage Element [0-9]*:.*Full" | awk "{print 
\$3 \$4}" | sed "s/Full *\(:VolumeTag=\)*//"
      fi

Notice that the regex in the first part won't match your IMPORT/EXPORT slots.  
My hunch is that you'll need to modify those greps, and probably the awk/sed 
immediately afterward... 

Another thing to check is whether or not mtx-changer is getting the correct 
number of total slots available when it's asked for it -- if not you'll have to 
fix that behavior too, probably..

Hope that helps!

Joe


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