* Byarlay, Wayne A. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20040330 11:14]: > Greetings all. > > I have a computer here, that I'm trying to get amanda installed & > configured on. The OS is RedHat9, and I've got an adaptec SCSI card with > a Quantum DLT7000 in there. > > I know the tape device is fine hardware-wise, because I have a different > hard drive with an old Debian image on it, and it's been working for > years. Backs up perfectly to this tape drive. > > Problem with the RH9 config, is that it successfully reports setting the > Quantum as /dev/st0, but any attempts to do anything with it, fail. "mt > -f /dev/st0 rewind" does nothing; the tape drive should blink to > indicate it's working. It just returns my prompt, as if it completed, > but the drive never does anything.
use a no-rewind tape device, presumably /dev/nst0 hth, jf > > amanda has been configured properly for the most part; but running > amlabel incorporates the mt rewind command, and when it gets to that > part, it just waits forever. > > Any ideas to get this tape drive working? > > wab. -- no reason to stay anyway, any day
