On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 10:02 AM, Arno Lehmann <al AT its-lehmann DOT de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 04.09.2008 15:49, Brian Debelius wrote:
>> I have that same problem also. It looks to me that something is up with
>> mtx. If you change tapes in the changer, and then manually run mtx -f
>> /dev/sg0 status, the first time, no slots are reported, and the second
>> time slots are reported. I just run it twice now.
>> I am running Ubuntu 8.04.
>
> That might be because the autochanger either needs mor time to do an
> inventory of its slots, or an explicit kick to do that.
>
> In the first case, the autochanger is simply not yet ready to respond
> to the slots status request, while in the second, the failed request
> might actually trigger an inventory.
>
I know if I do update slots before my changer is done with the
inventory I will get an error. I am not sure if it returns 0 slots in
this case or not though. I just avoid this by waiting 5 minutes after
changing tapes.

John

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