If there is not a label on the tape in the first time - i.e brand new tape i
have seen i/o errors and the tape gets written fine. It is also perfectly
usable. This happenned to me with LTO drives

Tom

> Pascal Robert wrote:
>
> > So I started to run amlabel on my 5 tapes.  The first two went ok, but
> > 3, 4 and 5 gave me this error:
> >
> > amlabel: tape_rewind: rewinding tape: /dev/nst0: Input/output error
> >
> > But it did create a new label, and 'amcheck' don't throw any errors.
> > What can generate this error ?  Thanks.
>
> Maybe hardware problems (bad cabling, scsi termination etc).
> Did you sacrifice the chicken before connecting your drive?
> Any kernel messages in /var/log/messages or dmesg?
>
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