On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 12:13:01PM -0500, MIchael Leone wrote:
> Worked for one tape, did not work for the other. I was able to label one 
> tape with the proper label, but the 2nd continued to give that error, even 
> after deleting the volume from the media db.

Eliminate Networker from the equation.

Can you access the tape directly with 'dd' or something?

Can you read the first block of the tape?

dd if=/dev/rmt/0cbn bs=64k count=1 | od -c

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