> to follow up to myself here i have managed to get the single drive working > fine - The issue now seems to be with the changer. > > Using mtx i can load and unload tapes but when i run amcheck i get the > following error > > amcheck-server: could not get changer info: could not determine current > slot, are you sure your drive slot is 1 > > I have changed all references to nst0 to point to nst1 in my config for this > setup but still this error - i have searched the archives for this one but > can't seem to find a solution.
i'm still having an issue and here is an output from the latest debug from chg-zd-mtx $ more /tmp/amanda/chg-zd-mtx.20031013170311.debug chg-zd-mtx: debug 1 pid 2919 ruid 11 euid 11: start at Mon Oct 13 17:03:11 2003 17:03:11 Arg info: $# = 1 $0 = "../../libexec/chg-zd-mtx" $1 = "-info" 17:03:11 Running: /opt/mtx/sbin/mtx status 17:03:11 Exit code: 0 Stdout: Storage Changer /dev/sg2:1 Drives, 6 Slots ( 0 Import/Export ) Data Transfer Element 0:Empty Storage Element 1:Full Storage Element 2:Full Storage Element 3:Full Storage Element 4:Full Storage Element 5:Full Storage Element 6:Full 17:03:11 Config info: firstslot = "1" lastslot = "5" cleanslot = "-1" cleancycle = "120" offline_before_unload = "1" unloadpause = "0" autoclean = "0" autocleancount = "99" havereader = "0" driveslot = "1" poll_drive_ready = "3" max_drive_wait = "120" 17:03:11 Exit (2) -> <none> could not determine current slot, are you sure your drive slot is 1 chg-zd-mtx: pid 3060 finish time Mon Oct 13 17:03:11 2003 really not having much luck with this idea of having 2 drives on one machine. thanks