On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Vectorz Sigma <vectorz3 AT gmail DOT com> 
wrote:
> Doyle, thanks for the tip but I got errors when trying it without the
> "tape:" in the string.   I forgot to mention that I'm using 2.6.0p1

The tape: thing is not the issue here -- the code that writes the
deprecation warning adds the prefix, and things go merriliy on.  So
the error is, in particular:

> Can't open tape device /dev/nst0: Bad file descriptor
> amlabel: Could not open device /dev/nst0.

Which basically amounts to: "the kernel said there was an error."  So
the next step is to ask the kernel -- check in dmesg, access the
device using dd or mt, and so on.

Dustin

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