Subject: Re: amanda tape changer errors
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 07/18/2002 16:09:45
On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 06:26:44PM -0400, Jan Schaumann wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm having difficulty setting up my Quantum ATL Power L200 for use of
> amanda.  The library seems to b working fine under manual operation.  I
> can execute any of the amanda commands _once_, however, the next one
> will simply take forever and not complete.  For example, I can label the
> tape in slot 0 successfully.  When trying to label the next tape, it
> just sits there.
> 
> This behaviour showed up when I was using
> eject	0
> in my changer.conf.  Changing this to "eject 1" leads to the following
> error:
> 
> amtape: slot <error> not ejected: could not read result from
> "/usr/pkg/libexec/chg-scsi"
> 
> /usr/pkg/libexec/chg-scsi -info
> No device found for tape eject
> 
> Running a ktrace on chg-scsi revelas the following:
>  6001 chg-scsi RET   write 66/0x42
>   6001 chg-scsi CALL  write(0xb,0x806b000,0x17)
>   6001 chg-scsi GIO   fd 11 wrote 23 bytes
>        "##### START OpenDevice
>        "
>   6001 chg-scsi RET   write 23/0x17
>   6001 chg-scsi CALL  write(0xb,0x806b000,0x18)
>   6001 chg-scsi GIO   fd 11 wrote 24 bytes
>        "OpenDevice : /dev/nrst0
>        "
>   6001 chg-scsi RET   write 24/0x18
>   6001 chg-scsi CALL  open(0x8069420,0x2,0xbfbfdc44)
>   6001 chg-scsi NAMI  "/dev/nrst0"
>   6001 chg-scsi RET   open -1 errno 19 Operation not supported by device
>   6001 chg-scsi CALL  write(0xb,0x806b000,0x23)
>   6001 chg-scsi GIO   fd 11 wrote 35 bytes
>        "warning open of /dev/nrst0: failed
> 
> Are there any people out there that experienced the same behaviour (and
> hopefully solved it)?

I have this in my chg-scsi.conf (for each config):
dev             /dev/nrst0      # the device that is used for the tapedrive 0
scsitapedev     /dev/enrst0

BTW I'm running 2.4.3b3; I don't remember if these options existed in 
2.4.2

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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