On Fri, August 14, 2009 6:40 am, Alan Brown wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, Dan Langille wrote:
>
>> I think we have a problem:
>
> I flagged this a couple of years ago with Overland changers.
>
>> [dlangille@backup01 bacula]$ sudo /usr/sbin/mtx -f /dev/sg4 load 3
>> [dlangille@backup01 bacula]$ sudo /usr/sbin/mtx -f /dev/sg4 status
>>   Storage Changer /dev/sg4:1 Drives, 38 Slots ( 36 Import/Export )
>> Data Transfer Element 0:Full (Unknown Storage Element Loaded):VolumeTag
>> =
>> AAM240L4
>>       Storage Element 1:Empty
>>       Storage Element 2:Empty
>>       Storage Element 3 IMPORT/EXPORT:Empty
>>       Storage Element 4 IMPORT/EXPORT:Full :VolumeTag=AAM241L4
>>
>> Should that 'Unknown Storage Element Loaded' be a 3 to indicate the slot
>> it came from?
>
> This happens consistently with tapes loaded out of i/o slots and the only
> solution I've found is not to put tapes in them.

All the slots on this machinare are IO slots, except for 1 & 2.  Perhaps
this is a configuration issue that I should look into.


> (FWIW Bacula won't load tapes from these slots either, bacula-changer
> doesn't parse the "IMPORT/EXPORT" from mtx and drops the line)

It is mtx-changer that doesn't parse that line. This is part of the
customization I've been doing for this particular robot.

-- 
Dan Langille -- http://langille.org/


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