On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 02:13:55PM +1000, Craig Dewick wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> 
> >It won't be the script that sets up specific devices.  The OS picks
> >the device names based on its scans and distorted logic.  In case
> >you are not familiar with that naming scheme c1t2d3 would be
> > "c"ontroller number 1       (you may have multiple scsi, or ide+scsi or?)
> > "t"arget     number 2       (aka scsi id or disk number for ide)
> > "d"evice     number 3 (aka scsi lun)
> >
> >So you need to setup your st.conf and sgen.conf (tape drive and changer
> >respectively) and do a config reboot (or devfsadm while testing, but
> >I recommend a reboot at the end to be certain).  Then find which device
> >names were assigned to your devices.
> 
> Yes I've done a re-config boot, but just to be sure I'll do another one 
> and report back on any differences in software behaviour.
> 
> >For this exploration don't use amanda.  Use mtx for changer explore and
> >testing and mt/tar/dd for drive explore and testing.
> 
> Yep I was using mtx to try and manipulate the changer, then I decided to 
> try out amtape and see if it made a difference.

Craig,

amtape is held together by the same chg-mtx glue that allows
amdump to work, if you don't have mtx working all of the other
utilities, which ride on top of it, will also fail.

Brian