On Fri, 1 Nov 2002 at 10:12am, Owain Pritchard wrote

> The problem I am now having is that when I type in the extract 
> command the following message appears:-
> 
> amrecover> extract
> 
> Extracting files using tape drive /dev/st0 on host Neli.

You need to use the non-rewinding tape device -- /dev/nst0.

> EOF, check amidxtaped.debug file on Neli.

And what's in this file?

> While this appears on the screen there is no activity from the tape 
> drive at all so it does not check to see if the tape is there.

Hmm.  Are there any errors in the system logs?  You are running amrecover 
as root, right?

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University