OK. Stranger by the minute. I removed the first tape (01) and set it
up to use the second tape(02). I issued a "amcheck fea" and it said my
second tape was OK and that I should be able to backup. I then issued
an amflush and it came back with an error. I then rewind the tape with
"mt rewind", turn around and issue another amcheck fea, and the tape has
an error on it. So, the amflush and/or amdump process is writing
something to the tape that causes it to not be usable after that point.
Is this sounding like a scsi error or some type ?
On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 10:49, James D. Freels wrote:
> Whoa ! Now I am going back to relabel my tapes. I have issued the
> amlabel command and receive a
>
> rewinding, reading label, not an amanda tape
> rewinding, writing label fea01
> amlabel: writing label: Input/output error
>
>
> Could I have a hard ware error of some kind ? I just rebooted the
> system to make sure it was not that. Just yesterday I labeled 25 tapes
> !!
>
> On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 10:07, James D. Freels wrote:
> > Hello Amanda-Users !
> >
> > I have duplicated my previous amanda backup setup from an existing
> > machine to a new machine. The new machine has a different tape drive
> > which I changed the tapetype entry in amanda.conf to:
> >
> > define tapetype TDK-DC4-150 {
> > comment "Seagate Scorpion 40 drive with DSS-4 tape and compression"
> > length 30000 mbytes
> > filemark 1 kbytes
> > speed 4800 kps
> > }
> >
> > All other entries are the same.
> >
> > I have also labeled new tapes for this tape drive.
> >
> > The amcheck says the tape label is good and is the next tape to be used
> > in the backup. The amcheckdb and amadmin configid tape commands all
> > indicate everything is working OK.
> >
> > An amdump works by sending all backup files to the holding disk.
> >
> > However, I receive the error message shown in the subject line and
> > repeated here for both the amdump and amflush commands.
> >
> > from the amflush log files:
> >
> > driver: result time 0.022 from taper: TAPE-ERROR [not an amanda tape]
> >
> > from the amdump log files:
> >
> > driver: result time 326.960 from taper: TAPE-ERROR [writing label:
> > Input/output error]
> >
> > from the log. files of the amdump run:
> >
> > ERROR taper no-tape [writing label: Input/output error]
> >
> > from the log. files of the amflush run:
> >
> > ERROR taper no-tape [not an amanda tape]
> >
> > The amtapetype ran OK.
> >
> > The tar command runs OK completely independent of amanda to backup files
> > to tape that way so I know the tape drive works OK. This machine is a
> > dual-Xeon running Linux 2.4.26 on the Debian/Woody/Stable distribution
> > with plenty of memory, etc.
--
James D. Freels, Ph.D.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
freelsjd AT ornl DOT gov
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