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Date:      23 Mar 1999 15:23:04 -0500
From:      Chris Shenton <cshenton@uucom.com>
To:        Charles Owens <owensc@enc.edu>
Cc:        cwt@FreeBSD.ORG, kingsled@enc.edu, nick.hibma@jrc.it, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: fix for amanda chg-chio script to eject tape
Message-ID:  <lfr9qgklav.fsf@Samizdat.uucom.com>
In-Reply-To: Charles Owens's message of "Mon, 22 Mar 1999 12:45:58 -0500"
References:  <36F67829.6C6CB4CA@enc.edu> <36F681D6.E2234C61@enc.edu>

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On Mon, 22 Mar 1999 12:45:58 -0500, Charles Owens <owensc@enc.edu> said:

Charles> In order to get chg-chio from amanda 2.4.1p1 to work happily
Charles> under FreeBSD-3_stable I had to add a few statements to the
Charles> Unload subroutine to eject the tape prior to calling the chio
Charles> command to move it back to its slot.

Charles> Did the ch(4) driver used to handle the tape ejection step
Charles> itself?  If not, then I'm not sure I understand how the
Charles> chio-script ever worked, since _somehow_ the st/sa tape
Charles> driver needs to be told to release the tape before the
Charles> changer can play with it.

I haven't noticed any problem with this. I'm using 3.1-S, Amanda
2.4.1p1, and the Perl chg-chio script which the port installed into
/usr/local/libexec/amanda/. I've got an Archive/Connor/Seagate Python
4xDDS2 changer. 


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