On Thursday 25 July 2002 15:40, Keith Nasman wrote: >O' gurus, > >I initially labeled 10 tapes for my rotation and now I am labeling > another 10. My first couple of tapes got labeled fine but now I'm > getting this: > >[root@presto DailySet1]# su amanda -c "amlabel DailySet1 > DailySet113" rewinding, reading label, reading label: Cannot > allocate memory rewinding, writing label DailySet113, checking > label, done. > >I assume that the tape got labeled correctly. Can anyone enlighten > me on the memory error?
Hummm, not brand new tapes? Maybe a tape that was used with another backup util, probably proprietary? What it sounds like is that when amanda tried to read the initial header from the tape, its encountering a totally humungous value the tapes block size and can't allocate that much memory. My best guess... Anyway, dd can retrieve the tape label with this pair of commands: #>mt -f /dev/tape_device rewind #>dd if = /dev/tape_device count = 1 which should disgorge the first block of 512 bytes to the screen, showing you the label as written. -- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 99.08% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
