Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula recognizes only 7 slots in an 8-slot-changer

[Dan L. <da...@la...>]

On 2012-06-27 05:44, Jens Grüntjes wrote:
> Zitat von Radosław Korzeniewski <rad...@ko...>:
>
>> Please, hard reset your changer (off/on), check all connections, 
>> check all
>> firmware options which could disable one slot - cleaning slot, etc. 
>> Then
>> check library status with mtx again. It should work. If not, check 
>> you HBA
>> firmware and OS driver.

The winning advice!

> i pulled the scsi-card out of the pci-slot and checked the
> termination, that looked okay. I checked the terminator at the 
> changer
> itself which also looked okay. After that I installed the scsi-card
> and connected the cables.
>
> I don't know if that helped. I rather guess the crucial thing was to
> *completely* power down the changer. Yesterday I only powered it down
> via the front panel but I guess that is only some sort of stand-by.
> Today I powered it down via a switch on the power supply. After
> powering on the changer and afterwards the computer everything looks
> fine:
>
> boromir ~ # mtx -f /dev/sg4 status
>    Storage Changer /dev/sg4:1 Drives, 8 Slots ( 0 Import/Export )
> Data Transfer Element 0:Full (Storage Element 3 Loaded):VolumeTag = 
> WOC4-03L4
>        Storage Element 1:Full :VolumeTag=WOC4-01L4
>        Storage Element 2:Full :VolumeTag=WOC4-02L4
>        Storage Element 3:Empty
>        Storage Element 4:Full :VolumeTag=WOC5-01L4
>        Storage Element 5:Full :VolumeTag=WOC5-02L4
>        Storage Element 6:Full :VolumeTag=WOC5-03L4
>        Storage Element 7:Full :VolumeTag=WOC1-01L4
>        Storage Element 8:Full :VolumeTag=WOC1-02L4
>
> Thanks again to all of you. I appreciate your help very much.


Woot!  success.  Now, I think the next step is to train mtx-changer.

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