On Thursday November 04 2004 8:55 am, Erik Anderson wrote: > Hello all - is there a way to get more information out of chg-scsi? > I'm trying to debug a wierd issue:
Good luck. I tried to get chg-scsi and chg-zg-mtx to works with a Spectra 2000 Treefrog and finally gave up. I ended up writing my own changer control program. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] LPD $ amcheck LPD > Amanda Tape Server Host Check > ----------------------------- > Holding disk /dumps/amanda: 36514756 KB disk space available, that's plenty > amcheck-server: could not get changer info: could not read result from > "/usr/libexec/chg-scsi > Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check > -------------------------------- > Client check: 0 hosts checked in 0.001 seconds, 0 problems found > > I'm able to move tapes around, read them, etc using mt and mtx. Yes, > I know that I could use chg-zg-mtx, but I'd like to find out why this > is happening for curiosity's sake, if anything. > > If I run chg-scsi directly, this is what I get: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] LPD $ /usr/libexec/chg-scsi -info > No device found for tape eject > > And here's my chg-scsi.conf: > > number_configs 1 > eject 1 # Tapedrives need an eject command > sleep 5 # Seconds to wait until the tape gets ready > cleanmax 10 # How many times could a cleaning tape get used > changerdev /dev/sg1 > config 0 > drivenum 0 > dev /dev/nst0 # the device that is used for the tapedrive > 0 startuse 0 # The slots associated with the drive 0 > enduse 5 # > statfile /etc/amanda/tape-slot # The file where the actual > slot is stored > cleancart 5 # the slot where the cleaningcartridge for > drive 0 is located > cleanfile /etc/amanda/tape-clean # The file where the cleanings > are recorded > usagecount /etc/amanda/backup/totaltime > > Thanks! -- Stephen Carville http://www.heronforge.net/~stephen/gnupgkey.txt ------------------------------------------------------------------ Fascism: When Socialism gets down to business.