On Thursday 04 November 2004 16:40, Erik Anderson wrote: >On Thu, 04 Nov 2004 15:36:05 -0600, Frank Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Maybe, mabe not. Depends on the user/group of the devices and the >> user/group Amanda runs as. >> Also, while sg is the proper device to use to control the changer, >> it doesn't understand tape commands like rewind, so make sure your >> tape device is referencing an st device (of course, your kernel >> also needs scsi tape support compiled in or the module loaded or >> you won't have any st devices). > >Okay - well I'm getting conflicting messages here. I had previously >been using /dev/nst0 to access the tape drive. That wasn't working, >so someone here told me I should use the sg* nodes to access the >drive. So that's when I switched to /dev/sg2. I changed the dev >entry in chg-scsi.conf back to /dev/nst0 and this is what I'm still >getting: > >[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" > >-Erik
While its probably all fubar for your setup, here is a known working chg-scsi.conf from my old setup using a DDS2 drive in a Seagate 4586N changer (4 tape) ---------------------- number_configs 1 eject 0 # Tapedrives need an eject command sleep 60 # Seconds to wait until the tape gets ready cleanmax 100 # How many times could a cleaning tape get used scsitapedev /dev/sg0 # test entry per Jean-Louis request changerdev /dev/sg1 debuglevel 9:0 # # Next comes the data for drive 0 # 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 3 # statfile /usr/local/etc/amanda/tape-slot # The file where the actual slot is stored #cleancart 3 # the slot where the cleaningcartridge for drive 0 is located #cleanfile /usr/local/etc/amanda/tape-clean # The file where the cleanings are recorded usagecount /usr/local/etc/amanda/totaltime # This is the end ------------------- Maybe this will help define what might be wrong with yours? -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.28% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.