Hi all,

I have got amanda working successfully with 250 MB IOmega disks. To do so, I 
wrote my own tape changer (which is actually an IOmega disk changer).

This tape/disk changer relies only on the mount point (i.e. the device 
file:<my_mount_point>) as specified in /etc/amanda/<my_backup>/amanda.conf. 
So it should work on other removable disk media as well, provided
- there is an entry in /etc/fstab enabling user amanda to just say "mount 
<my_mount_point>"
- user amanda can write to a data sub directory after mount
- the eject command is executable by user amanda, unmounts <my_mount_point> 
and either ejects the disk or gracefully exits (and lets a warm body do the 
removal of the disk).

The tape changer checks the label of the disk given to him against the label 
requested by amanda, and ejects the disk again if they don't match. Then it 
is asking again for a disk with the right label.

I collected all this into a patch file "amanda_iomega.patch" to be applied 
after untarring 2.4.4p1, which
- adds a new file amanda-2.4.4p1/changer-src/chg-iomega.pl.in
- updates amanda-2.4.4p1/configure.in
- updates amanda-2.4.4p1/changer-src/Makefile.am
- updates amanda-2.4.4p1/docs/TAPE.CHANGERS

I am suggesting to make this part of the general distribution and I am asking 
whom should I send this patch file to.

Meanwhile, if anyone is interested using this patch, please send me email.
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Dr. Christoph Pospiech
High Performance & Parallel Computing
Advanced Computing Technology Center
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