On Mon May 5 2003 10:04, Bort, Paul wrote:
>I have the exact same changer and drive, and Jon is 100% right.
> When you do a magazine change, if the cleaning light is flashing,
> clean the drive. Otherwise keep the cleaning tape separate. (Why
> can't more drives have lights like that?)

Thats the way my Seagate/Compaq ctl-96/4586n (slit personaility I 
think) changer works.  Pushing 2 years old, cleaned twice.

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jon LaBadie [mailto:jon AT jgcomp DOT com]
>> Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2003 11:37 PM
>> To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
>> Subject: Re: Exabyte 10h Library Problem
>>
>> On Sun, May 04, 2003 at 08:22:54PM -0600, Broderick Wood wrote:
>> > I have an OLDER Exabyte 10h Library with a Exabyte 8505 drive
>> > in it.
>> >
>> > The system works fine using the following:
>> > tpchanger "chg-zd-mtx"  # the tape-changer glue script
>> > tapedev "/dev/nst0"     # the no-rewind tape device to be used
>> >
>> > Except that when it hits slot 10 (the cleaning tape, as
>> > specified in changer.conf)
>> > firstslot=1             #### 1st tape slot
>> > lastslot=9             #### Last tape slot
>> > cleanslot=10             #### Slot with cleaner tape
>> >
>> > It locks up when the cleaning tape self-ejects.  I have to
>>
>> issue an "mtx
>>
>> > unload" and then "mtx load 1" to get it back to the first
>> > tape.
>> >
>> > Anyone have any ideas what's wrong here?
>>
>> Just one, cleaning tapes mixed in with regular tapes are evil.
>>
>> I can't even keep a magazine loaded with a cleaning tape in
>> my changer.
>> When it puts it in, the magazine is scanned.  As it hits the
>> cleaning tape it runs the tape and ejects the magazine.
>>
>> Use all 10 slots for regular tapes and clean manually.
>>
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