I'm using a Sony TSL-11000 DDS4 autoloader under Linux without
problems. It works as an Ultra2 LVD device without problems. I think
I'm getting better throughput than 2.8 MB/s, but it's still well under
Fast/Narrow bandwidth due to the limitations of the drive. I use mtx
and random access works as well as sequential. I had to modify the
chg-mtx script slightly--I can send it to you if you get the TSL-11000.
The one problem that I have had is an occasional tape getting stuck
during the change process, and that's using Sony brand DDS4 tapes and
not some cheap imitation. 3 times so far I had to take the cover off
the drive, mark the stuck tape as "bad," and give it a little push back
into the magazine. Then you have to shut down the system and power
cycle the drive to get the error to reset and magazine to eject. I
don't know if any of the other autoloaders ever have this problem.
Martin Apel wrote:
>
> On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Werner Behnke wrote:
>
> > > We are using a Seagate Scorpion DDS-4 Autoloader without problems.
> > > The only issue was, that for an unknown reason it doesn't like to be
> > > connected to the SCSI controller as a 'wide' device. If you set the DIP
> > > switches, such that it will register itself as a 'narrow' SCSI device
> > > everything is fine. Performance is about 2.8 MB/s so the narrow cable
> > > should not slow down the device noticeably.
> >
> > Does the autoloader support random access or
> > only sequential mode?
>
> It supports random access.
>
> > Did you set up chg-manual in amanda to change
> > tapes manually?
> >
> > If yes: how do you control the media changer?
> > With mtx (http://mtx.sourceforge.net/) or
> > Autoloader Tape Library
> > (http://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~sblack/autoloader/)
> > or something else (mt, SCSI UNLOAD command,
> > Amanda's chg-mtx...)?
>
> I took chg-mtx and adapted it at one place to use mtx 1.2. Using Linux
> for the tape server you have to configure the kernel with multiple
> LUNs per SCSI device.
>
> Greetings,
>
> Martin
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