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16 slots, 16 loads/reads?

2009-01-27 11:04:17
Subject: 16 slots, 16 loads/reads?
From: Nick Brockner <nbrockne AT hamilton DOT edu>
To: AMANDA users <amanda-users AT amanda DOT org>
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 09:54:50 -0500
Hi All,

I am having an issue where my superloader 3 LTO3 changer goes through and reads all FULL slots until it gets to 16. So, tapes are loaded and read until 16 slots are read, but it is reading the same slots over and over.

I have 16 slots, but only am using 7 of them right now. The result is that I am getting WAY more wear on my changer than I should be getting (and time is wasted).

Is there a way to get barcodes working in this version of amanda so that it wouldn't even have to do the reads, and if not, is there a way to tell it to stop reading until it gets to 16 (ONLY READ FULL SLOTS)???

Note that it does this every run AND every amcheck. . .

Details:

amanda version 2.6.0p2
CentOs 5.2
Quantum Superloader 3 LTO3 16 slot

changer.conf:
changerdev=/dev/sg3
firstslot=1
lastslot=16
havebarcode=1
havereader=1
poll_drive_ready=10
Max_drive_wait=99
unloadpause=10
driveslot=0
offline_before_unload=1
OFFLINE_BEFORE_UNLOAD=1

Thanks!

-Nick




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