Jon, I followed your advice on mtx and think I may have found the problem.
Check out these results - first an inquiry: [root@blossom root]# mtx -f /dev/sg0 inquiry Product Type: Tape Drive Vendor ID: 'SEAGATE ' Product ID: 'DAT 06241-XXX' Revision: '8110' Attached Changer: No then a status: [root@blossom root]# mtx -f /dev/sg0 status mtx: Request Sense: Long Report=yes mtx: Request Sense: Valid Residual=no mtx: Request Sense: Error Code=70 (Current) mtx: Request Sense: Sense Key=Illegal Request mtx: Request Sense: FileMark=no mtx: Request Sense: EOM=no mtx: Request Sense: ILI=no mtx: Request Sense: Additional Sense Code = 20 mtx: Request Sense: Additional Sense Qualifier = 00 mtx: Request Sense: BPV=no mtx: Request Sense: Error in CDB=no mtx: Request Sense: SKSV=no READ ELEMENT STATUS Command Failed Error code 70? any ideas? am I batty? Sorry to bug you so much... -John --- Jon LaBadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 04:45:50PM -0800, John > Cunningham wrote: > > Jon, > > > > Thanks for the help. Sorry if you got a partial > > message before this - yahoo's mail client > > occaisionally does things on it's own. > > > > I'll definitly check out the mtx stuff tonight. I > did > > install Amanda from source (I really don't like > > RPMS - they always seem to be behind) version > 2.4.3b - > > I think I got it within the last month. > > The "b"s are the beta pre-releases, 4 of them I > think. > Actually the one without the "b" is the real release > and is probably newer and more up to date. > > > As for the cleaning tape - the manual with my > drive > > (you can tell how new I am to tapes if I'm > RTFM-ing) > > said the drive likes a clean about once a week if > you > > run daily backups. Being that I don't know a > thing > > about it I figured I'd do 5 tapes on a 7 day > > rotation (the week schedule more for sanity), use > one > > cleaning tape in the cartridge, then just have to > swap > > cartridges once a week on my way out. > > Yeah, I do 6 per week. Done at about 2AM, so the > "Fri" > backup actually happens on Sat. Then I skip a day > and > the 2AM Monday covers the 2 day weekend. Since this > is > at home, it means I have all of Sat and Sunday til > 2AM > Monday to remember to change magazines. And if I > forget > they just collect in the holding disk. > > > I plan to have most of this done tonight, if it > takes > > until dawn (which it may :) - thanks again for the > > help. This is why I love open source. > > Its good software and a good group. > > -- > Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] > JG Computing > 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 > Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax) __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com
