On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 02:02:36PM -0500, Brendon Colby wrote:
> I will have to compile the distro from the Amanda site as the Debian packages 
> must not contain the amtapetype utility.

Debian doesn't appear to include a binary named "amtapetype", but there
is this:

$ man tapetype
NAME
       tapetype  -  test  a  tape in a tape drive and generate an
       Amanda tapetype entry
...

Looks like that might do the job.