> 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?
>
> --
> Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> JG Computing
> 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159
> Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
Jon, Doug, thanks for your replies. I'm using RedHat 7.2, amanda-2.4.2p2-4.
I think that the tape drive is rewinding, ie. could create tarball and write
back to another dir without rewinding. So I'm now fairly confident that my
tape device is /dev/ht0. I suppose my question now is, Can this tape device
be used or do I need a different setting in my amanda.conf file?
I have in my amanda.conf file;
tapedev "/dev/ht0" # the no-rewind tape device to be used
Some more info about my tape drive..
# cat /proc/ide/ide0/hdb/media
tape
# cat /proc/ide/ide0/hdb/model
Seagate STT20000A
# cat /proc/ide/ide0/hdb/name
ht0
# cat /proc/ide/ide0/hdb/settings
name value min max mode
---- ----- --- --- ----
avg_speed 21 0 65535 r
buffer 324 0 32767 r
current_speed 34 0 69 rw
debug_level 0 0 65535 rw
dsc_overlap 1 0 1 rw
ide_scsi 0 0 1 rw
init_speed 34 0 69 rw
io_32bit 0 0 3 rw
keepsettings 0 0 1 rw
nice1 1 0 1 rw
number 1 0 3 rw
pio_mode write-only 0 255 w
pipeline 9720 108 3538890 rw
pipeline_head_speed_c 31 0 65535 r
pipeline_head_speed_u 0 0 65535 r
pipeline_max 19440 108 3538890 rw
pipeline_min 9720 108 3538890 rw
pipeline_pending 0 0 3538890 r
pipeline_used 0 0 3538890 r
slow 0 0 1 rw
speed 1000 0 65535 r
stage 54 0 63 r
tdsc 110 50 400 rw
unmaskirq 0 0 1 rw
using_dma 1 0 1 rw
-Brad
