On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 at 1:57pm, Henson, George Mr JMLFDC wrote

> We new to Amanda and are having an issue getting the bar code reader to work 
> in our tape changer. We have an HP C7200 (2 LTO drives/20 media slots) 
> connected to an N class HP Server (HP/UX 11i amanda-2.4.4).
> 
> The HP supplied utils (ltt tools) are able to read the barcode info from the 
> tape silo, move the tapes, and inventory the robot with no known issues.
> 
> I have tried to configure the chg-scsi interface with marginal success. If I 
> turn off the barcode reader (havebarcode 0) then I can get Amanda to run 
> backups and amtape seems to act normal. If I understand correctly, this also 
> means the system must do a linear search for the media in the silo, instead 
> of using the barcode info.

Have you tried mtx?  See how well it controls your library, and then see 
how configuring it goes.

And please throw some linebreaks into your messages...

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University