--On Monday, April 27, 2020 18:01:38 -0400 Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wednesday 11 September 2002 12:50, Quinn, Richard C. - > Collinsville IT wrote: >> E: Working with multiple tape drives----- Ammended >> Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 11:50:51 -0500 > From: "Quinn, Richard C. - Collinsville IT" >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gene Heskett" >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> Yes, >> >> my box is a Sparc E-450 running Sol 6. >> >> I am using the SST driver for Solaris 6. >> >> I think it(SST Driver) is the predecessor to Solaris' sgen driver >> for Sol 7 and 8. >> >> Here are the boot messages for the Jukebox robotic arm and its 2 >> QUANTUM drives >> >> Sep 4 12:30:12 sun1 unix: sst3: found Changer device at >> tgt0, lun0 >> Sep 4 12:30:12 sun1 unix: sst3: Vendor/Product ID = STK >> 9730 Sep 4 12:30:12 sun1 unix: sst3 at pci1000,f7: >> Sep 4 12:30:12 sun1 unix: target 0 lun 0 >> Sep 4 12:30:12 sun1 unix: sst3 is /pci@1f,4000/scsi@4,1/sst@0,0 > > And try as I might, includeing hilighting the cmplete message, there > is something in the listing that prevents me from quoting it all. > > The bottom line is that for this, I think you are going to need the > manuals on this device. Its entirely possible it has a problem. I > find it different in that it finds the robot at address 0, and the > two drives at address 1 and 2. But properly set in amanda.conf and > chg-scsi.conf, I don't believe that to be a problem. > > You may have to either take it to a winderz box and check it with > their software, or return it to the vendor with your impression of > the problem. > You might also see if you can install mtx on your server (it requires GNU make and possibly a few other things not standard on Solaris) and use that to control your changer. If you can use mtx commands to control your library from the command line then it should be straightforward to use Amanda's chg-mtx driver instead of chg-scsi. I believe mtx accesses the changer through a raw device, bypassing the scsi driver, and can sometimes do more with some changers. Good luck, Frank -- Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501
