cngo AT nmsu DOT edu writes:
- When I run amcheck with chg-scsi, I've got the following message:  
-   
- Amanda Tape Server Host Check  
- -----------------------------  
- Holding disk /data/amanda: 24318827 KB disk space available, that's plenty 
-  
- amcheck-server: slot 0: tape_rdlabel: tape open: /dev/st0: Input/output error 
 

        On netbsd, /dev/st0 is certainly the wrong device to be
using.  You want to use /dev/nrst0.

- All of my tapes are labeled and here is my chg-scsi.conf file  
-   
- number_configs  1  
- eject           0         
- sleep           5         
- cleanmax        10        
- scsitapedev     /dev/st0  
- changerdev      /dev/ch0  
- tapestatus     /usr/pkg/etc/amanda/backup/changer/status  
- labelfile      /usr/pkg/etc/amanda/backup/changer/label  
- debuglevel 9:0  
-   
- config          0  
- drivenum        0  
- dev             /dev/st0          
- startuse        0                 
- enduse          9         
- statfile        /usr/pkg/etc/amanda/backup-scsi/changer/statfile   
- cleancart       57                
- cleanfile       /usr/pkg/etc/amanda/backup/changer-scsi/tape0-clean   
- usagecount      /usr/pkg/etc/amanda/backup/changer-scsi/totaltime  

This should look more like this:


        number_configs  1  
        eject           0         
        sleep           5         
        cleanmax        10        
        changerdev      /dev/ch0  
        tapestatus     /usr/pkg/etc/amanda/backup/changer/status  
        labelfile      /usr/pkg/etc/amanda/backup/changer/label  
        debuglevel 9:0  

        config          0  
        drivenum        0  
        dev             /dev/nrst0          
        scsitapedev     /dev/enrst0  
        startuse        0                 
        enduse          9         
        statfile        /usr/pkg/etc/amanda/backup-scsi/changer/statfile   
        cleancart       57                
        cleanfile       /usr/pkg/etc/amanda/backup/changer-scsi/tape0-clean   
        usagecount      /usr/pkg/etc/amanda/backup/changer-scsi/totaltime  

FYI: I usually put the `cleanfile', `usagecount', `statfile',
`tapestatus' and `labelfile' files under /var/spool/amanda, to
leave the /usr/pkg clear of frequently modified files.

You might also find some patches I made for use on NetBSD interesting.
They are available at ftp://ftp.cirr.com/pub/utils/amanda.  Place
them in a pkgsrc shadow tree (subdirectory sysutils/amanda-server)
and set LOCALPATCHES to the top of the shadow tree, and rebuild.

        FYI: I've been running Amanda on NetBSD for 10 years or
so.. Currently running on an AlphaPC64 as a tape server.

--
Eric Schnoebelen                eric AT cirr DOT com            
http://www.cirr.com
"Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.  One could write
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 highest authority about what could not be done and what could never happen."
                                         -- Robert Heinlein