Hello Folks, I’m getting a strange result when I do an ‘amcheck’:
slot 3: Tape device /dev/nst1 is not ready or is empty slot 4:Slot 4, label '000279L7', mismatch barcode between changer '000280L7' and tapelist file '000279L7' ERROR: Slot 4, label '000279L7', mismatch barcode between changer '000280L7' and tapelist file ‘000279L7' Here’s what I have in my config file: define changer spectra-robot { tapedev "chg-robot:/dev/changer" property "tape-device” "0=tape:/dev/nst0" property append "tape-device” "1=tape:/dev/nst1" device-property "BLOCK_SIZE" "512k" property "use-slots" "1-47” } To get rid of the problem, I reverse the tape device order: define changer spectra-robot { tapedev "chg-robot:/dev/changer" property "tape-device" "1=tape:/dev/nst0" property append "tape-device" "0=tape:/dev/nst1" device-property "BLOCK_SIZE" "512k" property "use-slots" "1-47” } Here’s the pertinent lines of the ‘amcheck’ after having made this change: slot 3: volume '000279L7' Will write to volume '000279L7' in slot 3. What going on? If it can help, here’s the output of ‘lsscsi -g’ (I removed the non-tape + changer lines): [1:0:4:0] tape IBM ULTRIUM-HH7 G9Q1 /dev/st0 /dev/sg10 [2:0:4:0] tape IBM ULTRIUM-HH7 G9Q1 /dev/st1 /dev/sg13 [2:0:4:1] mediumx SPECTRA PYTHON 2000 /dev/sch0 /dev/sg14 And here’s an output of the first few lines of the command ‘mtx status’: Storage Changer /dev/changer:2 Drives, 48 Slots ( 1 Import/Export ) Data Transfer Element 0:Empty Data Transfer Element 1:Full (Storage Element 3 Loaded):VolumeTag = 000279L7 Storage Element 1:Full :VolumeTag=000277L7 Storage Element 2:Full :VolumeTag=000278L7 Storage Element 3:Empty Storage Element 4:Full :VolumeTag=000280L7 I’m using a 50 slot SpectraLogic T50e library with two LTO7 IBM drives. Thanks!