>
> >iii) How do I eject my magazine? I used the eject button in the tape
> > drive to eject the magazine to place the cleaning tape into the
> > magazine, but it loads the first tape and not the one(say 4) which
> > was there before I ejected(which seems quite obvious). But how do I
> > bring back to the original configuration(ie 4)
>
> First do an amtape /config/ rest, followed by an amcheck
> /config/ which
> should leave the drive with the next required tape loaded if it is in
> the magazine. Otherwise reload the magazine with the next
> set of tapes
> and repeat. Amanda needs a base camp to start from by doing
> the reset
> after you've had the magazine out. On some drives (Seagate
> robots) you
> can push-button up the slot to load if the same tape is still in the
> same slot as before the magazine was ejected.
>
I can confirm that if the same slot is loaded before and after the magazine
change, AMANDA is ok. When I do a mag change on my Exabyte EXB-10h, I just
eject the tape that is in the drive, take out the mag, put in the mag, and
put the tape from the same slot in the mag in the drive. No need to reset,
and the regularly scheduled amcheck steps to the next tape and everything is
fine.
