ahhh, what beauty. I compiled mtx-1.3.4 (unstable), and used it to control
the changer. Once I was able to control the changer arm, I ran mtx status,
and discovered that the changer thought all tape slots were full, as well as
the tape drives.
So I manually inserted a tape into each drive, and issued the changer to
eject the tapes. This refreshed the status, showing the drives as empty,
and tape slots as full.
amtape can now insert/eject tapes again. I'm running amcheck now to ensure
that everything is working.
Thanks for the assistance.
-Rob
-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Carville [mailto:carville AT cpl DOT net]
Sent: Monday, April 28, 2003 10:19 AM
To: Amanda Users
Subject: Re: Tape Changer defunct.
Try controlling the device with mtx while doing a tail -f on
/var/log/messages.
Check your cabling :-)
On Monday 28 April 2003 07:05 am, Dege, Robert C wrote:
> The other day, when I was labeling tapes, soemthing happened & the
tape
> changer stopped responding. I'm trying to figure out if this is
amanda
> related, or if it's *gulp* a problem with the physical tape changer.
If it
> is the tape changer, what 3rd party programs can I use on linux to
further
> debug the problem?
>
>
> Some relevant output of /tmp/amanda/chg-scsi.20030428095213.debug:
> #### START SenseHandler
> Ident = [TLS-2218], function = [generic]
> ##### START GenericSenseHandler
> ##### START DecodeSense
> GenericSenseHandler : Sense Keys
> ErrorCode 04
> Valid 0
> ASC 46
> ASCQ 00
> Sense key 00
> No Sense
> Sense2Action START : type(8), ignsense(0), sense(0E), asc(83),
ascq(07)
> Sense2Action generic start :
> Sense2Action generic END : no match for generic return ->
0/Default for
> SENSE_CHG_ELEMENT_STATUS
> ##### STOP GenericSenseHandler
> #### STOP SenseHandler
> ##### START SenseHandler
> Ident = [TLS-2218], function = [generic]
> ##### START GenericSenseHandler
> ##### START DecodeSense
> GenericSenseHandler : Sense Keys
> ErrorCode 04
> Valid 0
> ASC 46
> ASCQ 00
> Sense key 00
> No Sense
> Sense2Action START : type(8), ignsense(0), sense(0E), asc(83),
ascq(07)
> Sense2Action generic start :
> Sense2Action generic END : no match for generic return ->
0/Default for
> SENSE_CHG_ELEMENT_STATUS
> ##### STOP GenericSenseHandler
> #### STOP SenseHandler
> chg-scsi: pid 5408 finish time Mon Apr 28 09:52:47 2003
>
> Thanks
> -Rob
>
>
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