Just to close this thread out, I was able to erase the labels on the
tapes and have been successfully labeling tapes.  Next stop, backups!

Thanks All!
Andrew

On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 3:47 PM, Bill Arlofski <waa-bacula AT revpol DOT com> wrote:
> On 06/19/2015 03:58 PM, Andrew Noonan wrote:
>> Hi Bill,
>>
>>      Yeah, I did that a few posts back.
>
> heh, no idea how I missed that. I'll chalk it up to a very busy week!
>
>
>> Unfortunately, there isn't a
>> keen mapping that specifically connects the SCSI devices to the
>> internal drive numbering that the changer uses, so commands against
>> the changer (mtx) would use the drive number, but commands against the
>> drive (mt) would use the devices.  Once Ana saw that my "drive 1" was
>> showing ONLINE when a tape was loaded and not my drive 0, she
>> connected the dots and had me swap the devices.
>
> Glad to see it is working correctly now.
>
> Ana has been very busy in here lately!  Thank you Ana! :)
>
>> Rest assured that the
>> actual device names I swapped are the /dev/tape/by-id names, as I
>> agree with you that they're a much better way to handle things.
>
> Yes, I think this is the only way to go when there are more than one SCSI tape
> and/or changer. Actually, these days I use the by-id node even when there is
> one drive. I think it is a good habit.
>
>
> Bill
>
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