On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 10:28:08AM -0400, Steven Settlemyre enlightened us: > None of my tapes are new. I put the next 3 tapes that I have in the > changer and run amcheck. It seems to be ok with 2 of the 3 tapes but > gives me "not an amanda tape (Input/output error)" for slot 3. So I read > the archives and they say to label the tape, so I run amlabel: > > BASH>/usr/sbin/amlabel -f monthly Monthly53 slot 3 > changer: got exit: 0 str: 3 /dev/nst0 > labeling tape in slot 3 (/dev/nst0): > rewinding > amlabel: tape_rewind: rewinding tape: /dev/nst0: Input/output error > amlabel: tape_rewind: rewinding tape: /dev/nst0: Input/output error > amlabel: pid 17508 finish time Wed Oct 11 09:40:36 2006 > > Is this a tape problem or am I approaching this incorrectly? >
Looks like a tape error to me. Can you read/write it with standard tools (dd, tar, etc.)? Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263