thank you for your advice to reinstall amanda using the tarball.
The installation was simple.
I use chg-zd-mtx as the recommanded changer with barcodereader,
both in rpm-amanda and in tar-amanda, but still without success.

But suddenly I ran into another problem. I could unload or eject
a tape from the drive into the original slot before, but since
yesterday I get:

# mtx -f /dev/sg1 unload

mtx: Request Sense: Valid Residual=no
mtx: Request Sense: Error Code=70 (Current)
mtx: Request Sense: Sense Key=Illegal Request
mtx: Request Sense: FileMark=no
mtx: Request Sense: EOM=no
mtx: Request Sense: ILI=no
mtx: Request Sense: Additional Sense Code = 3B
mtx: Request Sense: Additional Sense Qualifier = 83
mtx: Request Sense: BPV=no
mtx: Request Sense: Error in CDB=no
mtx: Request Sense: SKSV=no
MOVE MEDIUM from Element Address 451 to 1 Failed

I did not touch mtx, etc.
I have no idea where the strange value 451 comes from.

Do you have a suggestion?

Wim


Gene Heskett wrote:

On Tuesday 01 February 2005 11:22, Nick Danger wrote:

Humm... mine does too. Using chg-scsi and have the the barcode

I think I'd try and switch to chg-mtx as you've already noted that mtx itself seems to support it. I used chg-scsi for quite a while, but it has some problems that have never been addressed, such is a (apparently, I was not able to make it work) missing rewind function.

havebarcode      1   # Set this to 1 if you have an library with an
installed
                   # barcode reader

Its working anyway, just does have to look at each tape.  Where does
amanda store barcode information?

I do not know. Reading the srcs might be enlightening. I'd assume it might become part of the tapelist's data, but never having had a reader, thats just a SWAG.

Mmm, I see below that you installed from rpms. Thats been known to result in config difficulties. Generally, we recommend building the tarball. Its not that difficult, or time consuming once you have arrived at a working configure script. I post mine here as a guideline from time to time so the archives should have a copy. I can unpack a fresh snapshot in /home/amanda, become amanda and copy my script into the new snapshots directory, cd to it, run the script, become root and do a make install, & ldconfig in 5-6 minutes of an XP-2800 Athlon box.

-Nick

Wim Zwitser wrote:

Hi,

I try to install an amanda server on a Linux Enterprise pc with
the standard redhat rpms's. The pc is connected to an Exabyte 230D
DLT jukebox with 1 drive and 31 slots.

As far as I can see the basics are running fine, except one thing:
I can not read the barcodes on tapes in the jukebox  with one of
the am*-tools.

The only tool which gives the barcodes is mtx. After "mtx inquiry"
the "mtx status" command lists barcodes.

But "amtape <conf> show" starts to load all tapes one by one in
order to read an amanda label.
I like to see it reading the barcodes!

Does anyone have an idea?

Thank you in advance,
Wim

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