On Wednesday 13 July 2005 02:42 am, Taymour A. El Erian wrote: > HI, > > I had a tape which bacula failed to write on so I did mt erase and > relabeled it with label command and started to reuse it, what happened > is that I got this error from bacula after it wrote several jobs on the > tape > > Error: Unable to position to end of data on device "/dev/tape". > ERR=dev.c:494 ioctl MTEOM error on /dev/tape. ERR=Input/output error. > > what does this mean ?
This is just a guess, but Magnetic Tape End Of Media error. In other words, you have run off the end of the tape, without Bacula having received an end of media signal. HTH's. cmr -- Debian 'Sarge': Registered Linux User #241964 ---- "More laws, less justice." -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC -------- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the 'Do More With Dual!' webinar happening July 14 at 8am PDT/11am EDT. We invite you to explore the latest in dual core and dual graphics technology at this free one hour event hosted by HP, AMD, and NVIDIA. To register visit http://www.hp.com/go/dualwebinar _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users