Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 18:10:08 -0700 From: Sean Noonan <snoonan@cx952600-a.fed1.sdca.home.com> To: <wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: <snoonan@cx952600-a.fed1.sdca.home.com> Subject: RE: HP Autoloader Message-ID: <KIEPJNLEBFIFHLFBELKMCEMJCHAA.snoonan@cx952600-a.fed1.sdca.home.com> In-Reply-To: <86y9q65p7o.fsf@pan.ehsrealtime.com>
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Hi Wayne, As someone who's just spent the last month of his life trying to get FreeBSD + HP changer + Amanda backup software running, I feel like I can take a crack at this. 1. Use the no-rewind tape device, nrsa0. 2. You'll need to recompile your kernel to include the ch device. Man ch should help. This adds support for the changer. 3. Try something simple, like 'mt -f /dev/rsa0 erase' (for the rewind device). 4. Try some other glue, like mtx. I've had mixed results with mtx and couldn't get it working properly, but others apparently have. 5. If you decide to use Amanda, you might have luck with chg-mtx or chg-scsi, these are supposed to work under FreeBSD. I, however, could only get chg-multi working with my changer (and at that it took modifying one line of the Perl code). However, now that I have chg-multi working, I can now: '/path/to/chg-multi -slot 3' which will load tape 3, etc. Good luck, email if you get stuck. Sean Noonan P.S. - Hope this isn't in HTML! -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Wayne Pascoe Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 2:36 AM To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: HP Autoloader Hi all, I've just installed an HP Autloader onto one of my machines and I have some questions... 1. Is there a piece of software under FreeBSD that will allow me to change tapes from the cartridge to the device ? 2. I am getting the following output at boot time : sa0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 5 lun 0 sa0: <HP C5713A H910> Removable Sequential Access SCSI-2 device sa0: 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 32, 16bit) pass1 at ahc0 bus 0 target 5 lun 1 pass1: <HP C5713A H910> Removable Changer SCSI-2 device pass1: 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 32, 16bit) no devsw (majdev=0 bootdev=0xa0200000 I have done cd /dev sh MAKEDEV sa0 doing mt -f /dev/sa0 status gives me the following error : # mt -f /dev/sa0 status mt: /dev/sa0: Device not configured What else do I need to do to get the device to work? Thanks in advance. -- - Wayne Pascoe E-mail: wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk Phone : +44 (0) 20 7544 4668 Mobile: +44 (0) 788 431 1675 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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