I'd like to interject one item...if your chg-scsi trial doesn't fix the issue, you may want to look at your SCSI controller. You mentioned that you have an Adaptec 2940 while Chris is using a 7890/91...that could be part of the equation as well.
=G= Stefan Hellwig wrote: >Hello! > >I am very new to AMANDA (I started using it yesterday :-). However, I managed >to get the configuration done and all seems to work fine, thanks especially >to the great online manuals I found. > >I am using version 2.4.2p2 on Linux (SuSE 6.4, Kernel 2.2.14) with an ADIC >1200 DAT-Changer (12 slots) connected to an Adaptec 2940 SCSI host adapter. I >configured the chg-scsi changer configuration using the chg-scsi-linux.conf >as a template. > >Although it can control the changer and read/write to the connected HP DAT >tape there remains one problem: The DAT changer needs a very long time (10 >minutes!) to change tapes. In the chg-scsi debug output I usually get a lot >of "not ready" messages like this: > ><-- CUT --> > >##### START GenericSenseHandler >##### START DecodeSense >GenericSenseHandler : Sense Keys > ErrorCode 70 > Valid 0 > ASC 3A > ASCQ 00 > Sense key 02 > Not Ready >GenericSenseHandler : NOT_READY ASC = 3a ASCQ = 0 >#### STOP SenseHandler > ><-- CUT --> > >Then, at some point, I get the following message: > ><-- CUT --> > >#### STOP SenseHandler >GenericEject : Ready after 600 sec, true = 1 >##### STOP eject_tape [0] >###### START unload >unload : fd 3, slot 3, drive 0 >unload : unload drive 0[2] slot 3[6] >##### START GenericMove >GenericMove : from = 2, to = 6 > ><-- CUT --> > >It then finally takes the tape back into its slot and tries to load the next >one. Can anyone help me out here? Thanks! > >Regards, Stefan. > > >
