Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 10:40:29 -0400 From: Mitch Collinsworth <mkc@Graphics.Cornell.EDU> To: Oscar Ricardo Silva <oscars@mail.utexas.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Overland DLT changer and chio ?? -- Seemingly fixed Message-ID: <200004181440.KAA55899@larryboy.graphics.cornell.edu> In-Reply-To: Message from Oscar Ricardo Silva <oscars@mail.utexas.edu> of "Mon, 17 Apr 2000 16:18:15 CDT." <4.2.2.20000417161144.00a6fd90@mail.utexas.edu>
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>I do plan on using chg-scsi when I install Amanda 2.4.1p1 but I wanted to >make sure I could control the drives with the tools that come >installed. I'm fairly new to all this and didn't want to jump into using a >package without having learned the basics of the device. Also, if >something were to happen to the Amanda config or install, I would still be >able to manipulate tapes in the autoloader. understandable >I do believe I found the source of my problem. On the control panel to the >autoloader, you can set the device to work either in Sequential or Random >mode. With Amanda, I thought I would run it in Sequential mode so that the >tapes would be ordered by date. I started thinking about this and just for >grins put the device in Random mode. Lo and behold, all the "chio" >commands now work. Glad to hear that. I expect to be moving my Overland to a FreeBSD system sometime in the next few months. It's currently attached to a HP-UX (gag) machine. BTW, you really, really, really do want to run in random mode unless you have a changer that won't support it. The reason is not so much for backups, which normally use the tapes sequentially, but for restores. -Mitch To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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