On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 08:14:10AM +0700, Brad Waugh wrote:
> Have trouble with trying to label tapes. The drive on ide0. Have tried
> /dev/ht0 & /dev/nht0. Both give;
>
> $ /usr/sbin/amlabel iogta Tape1
> rewinding, reading label, not an amanda tape
> rewinding, writing label Tape1, checking label
> amlabel: no label found, are you sure /dev/nht0 is non-rewinding?
>
> I have a Seagate STT20000A (using Travan 20GB tapes).
>
> Have set my tapetpye in /etc/amanda/iogta/amanda.conf to;
>
> runtapes 1
> tapedev "/dev/nht0"
> tapetype STT20000A
> labelstr "^Tape[0-9][0-9]*$"
>
> define tapetype STT20000A {
> comment "just produced by tapetype program"
> length 9500 mbytes
> filemark 103 kbytes
> speed 914 kbytes
> }
Basic questions,
Can you write to and read from your tapedrive? (tar, dd, ... )
Does mt status give you reasonable results?
Is nht0 a no rewinding device? If you tar to the device,
do you have to do an mt rewind to read the tarball back?
It is not a familiar device name to me,
but then I have no idea what os you are using.
Is your tape write protected?
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