> Ah ha -- that's the problem. It's not that you're actually running out of > tape. The problem is that the system is encountering an I/O error while > trying to write to the tape. Amanda is just reporting to you what the > system told it. She's then going into degraded mode, which is why you're > seeing level 1 dumps.
Well, I have successfully erased the tape. This leads me to believe that it isn't a hardware problem, otherwise that wouldn't have completed successfully, right? I'm not terribly sharp on exactly what happens when the tape is erased, but I would imagine it involves a lot of I/O to the tape. So, it could be the tape itself, but this would be the second tape that it failed on, or it could be the drive has suddenly gone batty. But, once again, I successfully erased the tape, so it would seem both tape and drive are in working condition. Argh!
