Title: RE: Has anyone EVER gotten Amanda to work with an Exabyte 10 H ch ange r before?
Thanks everyone for all of your help on this!
-Original Message-
From: Joe Rhett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 1:01 AM
To: Adams, Christopher
Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Re: Has anyone EVER gotten Amanda to work with an Exabyte 10 H
ch ange r before?
If STCTL isn't seeing the tapes beind loaded, you're asking on the wrong
list. Amanda just uses STCTL.
If you can, you might want to upgrade to Solaris 8 and take advantage of
the built-in SGEN driver. This way you can bug sun if it doesn't work ;-)
On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 04:58:35PM -0800, Adams, Christopher wrote:
> I'm running Solaris 7 in 64 bit mode with the stctl driver, but the stctl
> driver keeps reporting all the bays empty. The connection type from Sun Box
> to Exabyte changer is SCSI II. Let me know if I can supply you with anymore
> needed information. Sorry about being vague before, its just that last time
> I asked this mailing list about this particular problem I wrote about 3
> pages of details and got not a single bite. I was kind of testing to see if
> I got a response this time. Glad you responded, I'll let you know
> everything I can.
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Joe Rhett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 4:54 PM
> To: Adams, Christopher
> Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: Re: Has anyone EVER gotten Amanda to work with an Exabyte 10 H
> change r before?
>
>
> Yes, but we'd need to know that OS, hardware, etc you are running
> before we can help you in any useful fashion. If I told you
> "Yes, running my private distribution of Linux" it wouldn't help you much
> ;-)
>
> The actual answer is 'yes, running Solaris 8 with the sgen driver and mtx'
> but again this may or may not be helpful.
>
> On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 11:58:29AM -0800, Adams, Christopher wrote:
> > Has anyone EVER gotten Amanda to work with an Exabyte 10 H changer before?
> > Running an Exabyte 8500 series tape drive.
> > If so please!!! Tell me how you did it.
> >
> > Christopher A.
> > Los Angeles, Ca.
>
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