I had the same problem....

Try uping your sleep variable in your scsi conf file....

I had it at 20 sec and upped it to 45 and it worked.....

you can try to lower the sec until it does not fail....


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jay Lessert" <jayl AT accelerant DOT net>
To: "Bruntel, Mitchell L, SOLCM" <mbruntel AT att DOT com>
Cc: <amanda-users AT amanda DOT org>
Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 3:23 PM
Subject: Re: Host Question on tape advancment


> On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 12:53:28PM -0500, Bruntel, Mitchell L, SOLCM
wrote:
> > Here;s the question:
> > Should amanda be advancing the tape every time it runs amcheck like
this?
> > in my changer, tapes 1-30 are amanda labeled tapes
> >
> > (background I have a 80 slot tape changer.)
> > My amcheck Host says:
> > Amanda Tape Server Host Check
> > -----------------------------
> > Holding disk /dump: 8972115 KB disk space available, that's plenty
> > amcheck-server: slot 39: tape_rdlabel: tape open: /dev/rmt/1bn: I/O
error
> > amcheck-server: fatal slot 40: slot 40 move failed
> > ERROR: new tape not found in rack
> >        (expecting a new tape)
>
> Just like amdump, amcheck will check current slot for an "optimally
> writable tape" (based on tapecycle, the content of tapelist, and
> what is actually loaded in the changer).
>
> If it doesn't find it in 'slot current', it will roll through the
> entire changer looking for it.
>
> In your case, the tape in 'slot current' generated "I/O error".  That
> is a really bad sign, probably threw errors in /var/adm/messages, and
> is the first thing you should look at.  At best(?), it is a bad tape
> that needs to be discarded.  At worst(?), there are cabling and/or
> configuration problems and you don't have a reliable R/W channel to
> your tape drives yet.
>
> Hmmm.  I notice you say "1-30 are amanda labeled", perhaps chg-scsi is
> not clever enough to handle having 81 slots declared in chg-scsi.conf,
> but only 30 slots populated, and just blows up on empty slots?  I am
> not a chg-scsi user...
>
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