>ERROR: /dev/st0: not an amanda tape (expecting a new tape)
That's the wrong device name. It must be /dev/nst0 to get the no-rewind
semantics.
>Let me re-iterate, the configuration has not been changed since the day I
>installed it and had it working for 3 months. ...
Then you've been damned lucky.
>... I tried switching the device to
>non-rewinding (/dev/nst0 as opposed to /dev/st0) and it errors out telling
>me the tape is write-protected - which it is not.
Are you sure the permissions on /dev/nst0 allow read/write access to
the Amanda user? Put another way, make sure they are the same as the
ones on /dev/st0, since that sort of works.
If that's not it, then my guess would be a hardware problem. Sorry.
You might try power cycling the drive, etc.
>-- Steve.
John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
