What happened to me could be totally unrelated to your experience, but
I had an issue recently where I couldn't get the tape drive to do
things that it normally had to problem with (rewind, eject, etc.).
I did an 'rmmod st' and 'modprobe st', and then all was well.
(My experience was with rh6.2, though.)
-ron
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 12:28:08PM -0500, Steve Fulton wrote:
> Several months ago I set up Amanda under Slackware Linux 7.0 (now using
> kernel 2.41) and had everything running fine, without issues. A few days
> ago, I started getting messages saying Amanda was unable to run..
>
> --
> ERROR: /dev/st0: not an amanda tape (expecting a new tape)
> --
>
> So I tried re-labelling several new tapes using AMLABEL, but it did failed
> with the following error:.
>
> --
> root@monitor:/usr/local/sbin# su amanda -c './amlabel amanda.conf
> w2obackup01'
> rewinding, reading label, not an amanda tape
> rewinding, writing label w2obackup01, checking label
> amlabel: no label found, are you sure /dev/st0 is non-rewinding?
> --
>
> Let me re-iterate, the configuration has not been changed since the day I
> installed it and had it working for 3 months. Now this error occurs, and
> I'm at the end of my rope. I've checked the archives to no avail. I am
> using the latest version of Amanda. 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.
>
> If anyone can point me in the right direction, I'd really appreciate it.
>
>
> -- Steve.
>
>
