Just for kicks try to retension the tape with "mt"

mt -f /dev/whatever retension

I had some trouble with my exabyte drive but retension
seems to magically fix it.

--- Henri Goffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm using amanda 2.4.2p2-9 with onstream DI-30
> 
> I've 2 different questions :
> 
> 1)It works reasonably well, but from time to time, I
> have such a
> message with amverify :
> 
> Tapes:  Daily-10
> Errors found:
> Daily-10 ():
> amrestore:   0: skipping start of tape: date
> 20020910 label Daily-10
> amrestore: fast-forward: Input/output error
> ** No header
> 0+0 records in
> 0+0 records out
> ...
> amverify Daily
> Fri Sep 20 20:00:00 CEST 2002
> 
> Using device /dev/nosst0
> Volume Daily-10, Date 20020910
> ** Error detected ()
> amrestore:   0: skipping start of tape: date
> 20020910 label Daily-10
> amrestore: fast-forward: Input/output error
> ...
> Too many errors.
> 
> 
> Quite anoying, but I can live with it.
> 
> Then I try to amrmtape, and erase the tape, then
> re-amlabel. But it's
> impossible to do a good backup on this tape any
> more, I always get
> error with this tape (no error message from amdump,
> but the same type
> of error message from amverify).
> 
> I even tried to use this tape under windows : It
> works normally (I
> can backup and restore), but not under Linux/amanda.
> So I have to
> take a new one. 
> 
> 2) I recently get this message from amlabel (I
> didn't find it in the
> doc). Could you help?
> ...
> amlabel : writing endmark: input/output error
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Henri Goffin
> -- 
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