Hello Trevor
I wish I had the answer for you but unfortunately after getting amanda to
work it has now reverted back to what you are experiencing. And worse still
I'm not sure why :( All I know is that I had it working for a few days, I
then rebooting the server and haven't had it working since.
Below are some snippets from my amanda.conf file. Please let me know if you
have any joy with getting this resolved.
runtapes 1 # number of tapes to be used in a single run of
amdump
tapedev "/dev/nht0" # the no-rewind tape device to be used
tapetype STT20000A # what kind of tape it is (see tapetypes
below)
labelstr "^Tape[0-9][0-9]*$" # label constraint regex: all tapes must
match
define tapetype STT20000A {
comment "just produced by tapetype program"
length 9500 mbytes
filemark 103 kbytes
speed 914 kbytes
}
Although the message from another list member states;
"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."
I have not tried this, which could be the answer.
Regards
Brad
----- Original Message -----
From: "Trevor Fraser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 6:02 PM
Subject: Travan 10/20GB ATAPI (IDE) use with Amanda and amlabel
> Hi All,
>
> I've recently intalled a Travan 20GB tape drive ATAPI (IDE) (M/N:
> STT320000A), and I'm running Linux 7.1 with Amanda 2.4.2p2. I'm yet to get
> it to work. We are able to see the /dev/nht0 device and can rewind, etc...
> We cannot amlabel or do amcheck.
>
> The software which comes with the tape drive only supports Microsoft
Windows
> and there is no mention of Linux in the documentation or on their website.
I
> plug the tape drive into a Windows machine and install backup-exec and it
> works, but I had to first "media initialize."
>
> I am trying to label the tape using amlabel, with the tape device in the
> config file set to nht0 instead of ht0, ie non-rewinding, but the message
> received is:
>
> rewinding, reading label, no label found
> rewinding, writing label archive1, checking label
> amlabel: no label found, are you sure /dev/nht0 is non-rewinding?
>
> when I use amcheck, the message is:
> ERROR: /dev/nht0: not an amanda tape
> (expecting a new tape)
>
> What am I not seeing/checking?
>
> Where does Linux get the driver for the tape drive from if I haven't
> installed the software that comes with it. Does the Red Hat package come
> with a driver? The autodetect on startup detects a Seagate STT20000A, but
on
> the drive it says STT320000A. Am I way off ? Please Help!
>
> System Instability
> -----------------
> The resultant problem since I've installed the tape drive is our Linux
file
> server is freezing up, forced rebooting results which is obviously a
no-no.
>
> On shutdown, I see a message:
>
> Sending all processes the TERM signal...
> Sending all processes the KILL signal... md: recovery thread got woken
up..
> md: recovery thread finished...
> mdrecoveryd(8) flushing signals.
>
> ?Is this of importance to me? The system often freezes at this point.
>
> The other message I receive comes up at random intivals, sometimes when
the
> tape's activity light is on with no activity is happening, and often
causes
> the computer to freeze:
>
> ide-tape: hdd: cleanup_module( ) called while still busy.
>
> Regards
> Trevor Fraser
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
