I'm trying to get this puppy to work with
3 tapes for now, i can control the robot
fine with the mtx program but amanda keeps
giving me :

bash-2.04$ /usr/local/sbin/amlabel bef Test01 slot 2
amlabel: could not load slot "2": could not determine current slot, are you 
sure your drive slot is 2

I put the tape from slot 1 in the drive, it knows theres one
in slot 2 and 3 but it keeps complaining about the 'current' slot.

>From what i can tell the output of the mtx command is in a format
the regex's from the glue script should match.

changer.conf
------------------------------------
firstslot=1                     # First slot
lastslot=3                      # Last slot
cleanslot=-1                    # Don't use a cleaning tape slot
driveslot=0                     # This is the slot of the drive
havereader=0                    # Do not use the barcode reader
autoclean=0                     # Do not autoclean
offline_before_unload=0         # Does not require offline before unload
havebarcode=0

amanda.conf (snippet)
-------------------------------------
runtapes 1
tapedev         "/dev/pass2"
changerdev      "/dev/pass3"
tapetype IBM-LTO3580

mtx results
-------------------------------------
bash-2.04$ /usr/local/sbin/mtx -f /dev/pass3 status
  Storage Changer /dev/pass3:1 Drives, 20 Slots ( 1 Import/Export )
Data Transfer Element 0:Full (Storage Element 1 Loaded):VolumeTag =
      Storage Element 1:Empty:VolumeTag=
      Storage Element 2:Full :VolumeTag=
      Storage Element 3:Full :VolumeTag=
      Storage Element 4:Empty:VolumeTag=
      Storage Element 5:Empty:VolumeTag=
      Storage Element 6:Empty:VolumeTag=
      Storage Element 7:Empty:VolumeTag=
      Storage Element 8:Empty:VolumeTag=
      Storage Element 9:Empty:VolumeTag=
      Storage Element 10:Empty:VolumeTag=
      Storage Element 11:Empty:VolumeTag=
      Storage Element 12:Empty:VolumeTag=
      Storage Element 13:Empty:VolumeTag=
      Storage Element 14:Empty:VolumeTag=
      Storage Element 15:Empty:VolumeTag=
      Storage Element 16:Empty:VolumeTag=
      Storage Element 17:Empty:VolumeTag=
      Storage Element 18:Empty:VolumeTag=
      Storage Element 19:Empty:VolumeTag=
      Storage Element 20 IMPORT/EXPORT:Empty:VolumeTag=


bash-2.04$ /usr/local/sbin/mtx -f /dev/pass2 inquiry
Product Type: Tape Drive
Vendor ID: 'IBM     '
Product ID: 'ULTRIUM-TD1     '
Revision: '12U2'
Attached Changer: No

bash-2.04$ /usr/local/sbin/mtx -f /dev/pass3 inquiry
Product Type: Medium Changer
Vendor ID: 'HP      '
Product ID: 'C7200           '
Revision: '126I'
Attached Changer: No

does anyone have any experience with these ?

With best regards,

Armand Sulter - Systems Administration
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