On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 02:13:55PM +1000, Craig Dewick wrote: > > On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > >It won't be the script that sets up specific devices. The OS picks > >the device names based on its scans and distorted logic. In case > >you are not familiar with that naming scheme c1t2d3 would be > > "c"ontroller number 1 (you may have multiple scsi, or ide+scsi or?) > > "t"arget number 2 (aka scsi id or disk number for ide) > > "d"evice number 3 (aka scsi lun) > > > >So you need to setup your st.conf and sgen.conf (tape drive and changer > >respectively) and do a config reboot (or devfsadm while testing, but > >I recommend a reboot at the end to be certain). Then find which device > >names were assigned to your devices. > > Yes I've done a re-config boot, but just to be sure I'll do another one > and report back on any differences in software behaviour. > > >For this exploration don't use amanda. Use mtx for changer explore and > >testing and mt/tar/dd for drive explore and testing. > > Yep I was using mtx to try and manipulate the changer, then I decided to > try out amtape and see if it made a difference.
Craig, amtape is held together by the same chg-mtx glue that allows amdump to work, if you don't have mtx working all of the other utilities, which ride on top of it, will also fail. Brian
