On Thursday 15 August 2002 12:30, Owen Williams wrote:
>Hi,
> I've just started using Amanda, hoping/praying I can move away
>from Arkeia, wish I still had ADSM. Anyway...
>
>First a contribution, I haven't seen it anywhere else:
>
>define tapetype DLT8000 {
> comment "Compaq DLT8000 (from tapetype)"
> length 38119 mbytes
> filemark 32 kbytes
> speed 2071 kps
>}
>
>Everything seems setup OK. The network connections are all
> working. Two things though:
>
>WARNING: info file /etc/amanda/Blue/curinfo/node3/_boot/info:
>does not exist
>WARNING: info file /etc/amanda/Blue/curinfo/node3/_/info: does
>not exist
>WARNING: info file /etc/amanda/Blue/curinfo/node4/_usr1/info:
>does not exist
>WARNING: info file /etc/amanda/Blue/curinfo/node4/_boot/info:
>does not exist
>.
>.
>.
>
>This will probably go away when I start backing things up???
>
>The second is that I get problems using tapes from 'slot 9' of my
>10 slot library. I have a cleaning tape in the tenth. I have
>two tape drives. I get:
>
>amcheck-server: slot 9: rewinding tape: Input/output error
>
>I got this first with amlabel. I configured amanda to use the
>other drive. I cleaned both drives and tried a new tape in 'slot
>9' but I still get the 'rewinding input/output' error.
>
>I'm loathed to start backing things up while it still complains.
>
>Any help would be much appreciated.
>
>Owen.
I think you are being bitten by the "base zero bug". Your drive
numbers them 1-10, but amanda numbers them 0-9, therefore the
cleaning tape is in slot 9, not 10. Set your 'enduse' to 8 and
assign the cleaningtape to 9 in your chg-scsi.conf.
It would be obvious to the newbie if there was "firstslot" variable
we could set to 0 or 1 in order to make that match, but...
Hummm, there is a 'startuse' in mine, currently set for 0. Does
anyone know if this is the starting slot, or is it the number
offset to be added to all further slot numbering schemes?
If its the base 0/base 1 switch, a lot of changer vs newbie problems
would be solved.
Inquiring minds, even this old one, want to know...
--
Cheers, Gene
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