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.

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.