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Question: ADIC DAT-Changer very slow

2002-09-04 03:48:29
Subject: Question: ADIC DAT-Changer very slow
From: Stefan Hellwig <shellwig AT orga DOT com>
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 09:33:27 +0200
Hello!

I am very new to AMANDA (I started using it yesterday :-). However, I managed 
to get the configuration done and all seems to work fine, thanks especially 
to the great online manuals I found.

I am using version 2.4.2p2 on Linux (SuSE 6.4, Kernel 2.2.14) with an ADIC 
1200 DAT-Changer (12 slots) connected to an Adaptec 2940 SCSI host adapter. I 
configured the chg-scsi changer configuration using the chg-scsi-linux.conf 
as a template.

Although it can control the changer and read/write to the connected HP DAT 
tape there remains one problem: The DAT changer needs a very long time (10 
minutes!) to change tapes. In the chg-scsi debug output I usually get a lot 
of "not ready" messages like this:

<-- CUT -->

##### START GenericSenseHandler
##### START DecodeSense
GenericSenseHandler : Sense Keys
        ErrorCode                     70
        Valid                         0
        ASC                           3A
        ASCQ                          00
        Sense key                     02
                Not Ready
GenericSenseHandler : NOT_READY ASC = 3a ASCQ = 0
#### STOP SenseHandler

<-- CUT -->

Then, at some point, I get the following message:

<-- CUT -->

#### STOP SenseHandler
GenericEject : Ready after 600 sec, true = 1
##### STOP eject_tape [0]
###### START unload
unload               : fd 3, slot 3, drive 0
unload               : unload drive 0[2] slot 3[6]
##### START GenericMove
GenericMove          : from = 2, to = 6

<-- CUT -->

It then finally takes the tape back into its slot and tries to load the next 
one. Can anyone help me out here? Thanks!

Regards, Stefan.