Yes, it has a light...and sometimes it comes on and sometimes it doesn't. After 
this happened a couple of times I cleaned it even though the light wasn't on. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Gene Heskett [mailto:gene_heskett AT iolinc DOT net]
Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 1:00 PM
To: Rebecca Pakish Crum; Amanda Users (E-mail)
Subject: Re: Tape error problems


On Wednesday 22 January 2003 09:17, Rebecca Pakish Crum wrote:
>I've been successfully using amanda for over a year now and all of
> a sudden it's all screwed up! I'm using amanda 2.4.2p2 on a RH7.2
> box.
>amcheck is happy when it runs daily at 3 pm before I leave:
>Amanda Tape Server Host Check
>-----------------------------
>Holding disk /dumps/amanda: 13770716 KB disk space available,
> that's plenty NOTE: skipping tape-writable test
>Tape isymmdaily09 label ok
>Server check took 10.881 seconds
>
>Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
>--------------------------------
>Client check: 3 hosts checked in 0.273 seconds, 0 problems found
>
>(brought to you by Amanda 2.4.2p2)
>
>But that same night when my cron job tried to kick off the backup:
>*** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [rewinding tape: No medium found].
>Some dumps may have been left in the holding disk.
>Run amflush to flush them to tape.
>The next tape Amanda expects to use is: isymmdaily09.
>
>And yes, the tape is in the drive. It's still in there now, hasn't
> been touched. This has happened to me almost every day for the
> last week. So it's not just this tape. I've cleaned the drive,
> turned the drive off, bounced the box...all of the little things.
>
>Thoughts?
>
Does this drive have an led on it that indicates when it needs 
cleaning?  (mine does) And does it come back on very quickly after 
the cleaning operation has been done?

If so, then it sounds as if the drive needs a trip to the maker for 
refurbishing.  Or an outright replacement if you have outgrown it.

Otherwise has anythng else in the data cableing and so on been 
touched at about the time this started?

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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