Amanda was working so well in the server room that
I decided to slap it on my workstation as well. I have a Seagate STT20000A
drive in my linux box. It works just fine with Tar and the couple of times
I tried out an eval version of BRU. However, when I run amlabel to
label my tapes, it says that the tape is not an amanda tape, which is fine
as it's brand new, then it writes a label, but when it goes to check it
afterwards it says "No label found" and "Are you sure /dev/nht0 is a non
rewinding device?"
mt -f /dev/nht0 rewind
and dd if=/dev/nht0 bs=32k count=1
yield nothing. I checked to see if it was indeed a non-rewinding device
by doing successive dd commands on a previously tar'd tape and it advanced
along the tape without rewinding just as I would expect it to.
I'm using the tapetype definition from the Faq-o-matic for
the STT20000A. Any ideas on what would cause this?
