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Re: configuring the Solaris 'sgen' driver to bind to L9 changer device
2006-09-17 23:42:19
After hunting around for a while in Google I found a reference to an old
post to this list (!) dating back to about 2003:
http://marc.10east.com/?l=amanda-users&m=106975454004344&w=2
which pointed me to a script in the contrib sub-directory of the mtx
source tree. That actually worked and correctly detected the changer
device along with creating the device handle for it so now it's
configured as '/dev/scsi/changer/c2t0d0'.
I've set up the configuration file for chg-zd-mtx however when I run any
of the testing commands outlined in the instructions in the script,
they're all returning a 'no slots available error.
In amanda.conf, I've configured the path to the changer.conf file in the
changerfile setting. That changer.conf file is set up like this at the
moment:
# Sun L9 tape changer configuration for Amanda with MTX
firstslot=1
lastslot=8
cleanslot=-9
driveslot=0
autoclean=0
I've put tapes in slots 1 to 8, and at present nothing in slot 9 (it'll
have a cleaning tape soon) so that's why I set cleanslot to be negative
(per the script instructions), and set autoclean to zero.
Should I need to change the L9's own configuration with regard to tape
selection using the front control panel?
BTW, I'm using plain mtx version 1.2.14 that I built from the source tree.
Do I need to use a special version of mtx with chg-zd-mtx as the selected
changer script?
Regards,
Craig.
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