Re: barcodes in Exabyte 230D

2005-02-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 03 February 2005 16:50, Wim Zwitser wrote: >thank you Nick, that's the solution. >mtx is working properly again. > Thanks for echoing that message, Wim. I for some reason didn't get a copy. >Now I can return to the main experiment: try to read barcodes! >As far as I understand the do

Re: barcodes in Exabyte 230D

2005-02-03 Thread Wim Zwitser
thank you Nick, that's the solution. mtx is working properly again. Now I can return to the main experiment: try to read barcodes! As far as I understand the documentation and the several reactions this way is not yet very clear. I feel myself a kind of explorer:), but I am still open for a good su

Re: barcodes in Exabyte 230D

2005-02-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 03 February 2005 10:24, Wim Zwitser wrote: >thank you for your advice to reinstall amanda using the tarball. >The installation was simple. >I use chg-zd-mtx as the recommanded changer with barcodereader, >both in rpm-amanda and in tar-amanda, but still without success. > >But suddenly I

Re: barcodes in Exabyte 230D

2005-02-03 Thread Wim Zwitser
thank you for your advice to reinstall amanda using the tarball. The installation was simple. I use chg-zd-mtx as the recommanded changer with barcodereader, both in rpm-amanda and in tar-amanda, but still without success. But suddenly I ran into another problem. I could unload or eject a tape from

Re: barcodes in Exabyte 230D

2005-02-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 01 February 2005 11:22, Nick Danger wrote: >Humm... mine does too. Using chg-scsi and have the the barcode I think I'd try and switch to chg-mtx as you've already noted that mtx itself seems to support it. I used chg-scsi for quite a while, but it has some problems that have never be

Re: barcodes in Exabyte 230D

2005-02-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 01 February 2005 09:57, Wim Zwitser wrote: >Hi, > >I try to install an amanda server on a Linux Enterprise pc with >the standard redhat rpms's. The pc is connected to an Exabyte 230D >DLT jukebox with 1 drive and 31 slots. > >As far as I can see the basics are running fine, except one th

Re: barcodes in Exabyte 230D

2005-02-01 Thread Nick Danger
Humm... mine does too. Using chg-scsi and have the the barcode option set. havebarcode 1 # Set this to 1 if you have an library with an installed # barcode reader Its working anyway, just does have to look at each tape. Where does amanda store barcode information? -N

Re: barcodes in Exabyte 230D

2005-02-01 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 03:57:54PM +0100, Wim Zwitser wrote: > Hi, > > I try to install an amanda server on a Linux Enterprise pc with > the standard redhat rpms's. The pc is connected to an Exabyte 230D > DLT jukebox with 1 drive and 31 slots. > > As far as I can see the basics are running fine,

barcodes in Exabyte 230D

2005-02-01 Thread Wim Zwitser
Hi, I try to install an amanda server on a Linux Enterprise pc with the standard redhat rpms's. The pc is connected to an Exabyte 230D DLT jukebox with 1 drive and 31 slots. As far as I can see the basics are running fine, except one thing: I can not read the barcodes on tapes in the jukebox with