Hello,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: greg [mailto:slay AT slough-feg DOT com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 8:52 AM
> To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
> Subject: Devices
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I am running amanda 2.4.2p2  on FreeBSD 4.6.2.  Well I hope to be 
> anyways.  The thing I cannot seem to figure out is this.  I 
> am using a 
> quantum ATL L500 tape changer with a DLT8000-40 tape drive.  
> The devices 
> for the /dev/sa device are numbered
> /dev/sa0
> /dev/sa0.0
> /dev/sa0.1
> /dev/sa0.2
> /dev/sa0.3
> 
> I am trying with the changer.conf to name the slots at the 
> end but when 
> I do "amlabel -f normal Z01 slot 0"  I get
> "slot 0 empty".  What I do not understand is,  does each /dev/sa0.* 
> device pertain to a slot in loader or do i need to make sa1 
> sa2 sa3 and 
> so on?  Or am I totally lost?

Try to look at your /var/run/dmesg.boot. Tape changer device 
is /dev/passX, where X is a number. If you have mtx installed 
on your system, you can see what slots are used with 
mtx -f /dev/passX status. I suspect that you have tape in the 
tape drive ( /dev/sa0), but no tapes in changer (/dev/passX).
Hope that helps.

Simas Cepaitis
simas AT 5ci DOT lt