Hi,

have you tried to read back an amanda-image from your tape?
i had such a nice setup with an ide-tape apearing to work nice
with amanda for some month, but at the time i had to recover a
file i couldn't read a single file from tape.
As far as i recall the safest way to use this ide-tapes under linux
is activating scsi-emulation for the drive and then acess it via
/dev/nst[0..n]
the linux ide-tape-driver seems to have some problems with the
way amanda uses tape drives. at least with some tape drives.
Christoph

Brad Waugh wrote:

>>On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 12:43:17PM +0700, Brad Waugh wrote:
>>
>>>>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
> 
>>  [ lots of data snipped ]
>>
>>>>>End of included message <<<
>>>>>
>>With Linux, I'm out of my realm.
>>Quite different administration than systems I use.
>>
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>>Jon H. LaBadie                  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> JG Computing
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>>
>>
> 
> Many thanks for your help.
> 
> In the end /dev/nht0 was/is the correct device for my ide tape drive
> (non-rewinding) under Linux.  It seemed to work ok after a few tarball
> creations/extractions.  I'm now happily amanda'ing.
> 
> Regards
> -Brad
> 
> 


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