Anne,

I don't know what you mean by automatically loaded. My experience
and recent discussion on this list both show that the current tape
remains in the drive at the completion of the amanda run, just as
the current tape remains in the drive at the completion of an amanda
run that does not utilize a tape changer.

With my configuration amcheck (running from cron during the
afternoon, while I'm in-house to correct any errors) finds
the "next" tape and loads it.

amdump (run from cron during the night) is also able to find and
load the correct tape which has occured in the cases where I for
one reason or another did not leave the tapes alone after amcheck ran.

--

I don't know how anyone else faired with your config and mine
is different but for what its worth...

I have an HP 9 tape jukebox labeled "Sun StorEdge 9" with
an LTO drive. I was unable to get the amtape commands to
all work nor the amlabel slot command.

I used the chg-zd-mtx changer and was unsuccessful until
I replaced the script with the one from amanda 2.4.3 release.

At that point I was able to run all amanda commands and 
parameters successfully.



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> 
> Hello 
> 
> I am configuring amanda-2.4.2p2-9 for a changer HP Ultrium LTO 1 (composed of 
> 6 slots) and I have the following problem : the tape in the next slot is not 
> automatically loaded
> 
> The main lines of the configuration files are the following :
> ====== amanda.conf
> runtapes 6
> tpchanger "chg-multi"
> changerfile "/etc/amanda/DailySet1/chg-multi.conf"
> 
> ====== chg-multi.conf
> multieject 0
> gravity 1
> needeject 1
> ejectdelay 0
> statefile /var/lib/amanda/csd/changer-status
> firstslot 1
> lastslot 6
> slot 1 /dev/nst0
> slot 2 /dev/nst0
> slot 3 /dev/nst0
> slot 4 /dev/nst0
> slot 5 /dev/nst0
> slot 6 /dev/nst0
> 
> The system configuration is a Linux Redhat 8.0 with kernel 2.4.18-14smp
> 
> Here is the description of the problem :
> - I manually load a tape in the slot 1, it's ok 
> - Then, I lauch amdump, it's ok
> - But when the first backup is finished, if I lauch a second amdump, 
> I get the error :
> "ERROR taper no-tape [new tape not found in rack]"
> 
> I use chg-multi as tpchanger, which is a very basic interface to the changer, 
> as I didn't found a better "driver", and my changer seems to react
> like a non wrap around changer : when the last position is reached,
> I have to manually put the changer on the first position.
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Anne Facq
> 
> --
> 
> Anne Facq
> System Engineer
> CRPP - Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal
> France
> Mail : annefacq AT crpp.u-bordeaux DOT fr
> Phone : 05 56 84 56 62
> Fax : 05 56 84 56 00
> http://www.crpp.u-bordeaux.fr
> 
>