Hello Jean-Louis,
Thank you, the tape's variable block size was exactly the problem,
I have recompiled amanda with --with-max-tapeblocksize=32, and amlabel
is now working correctly.
Thanks again,
Tim
On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:
> Hi Tim,
>
> Your tape drive is set to variable block size?
> You didn't set '--with-maxtapeblocksize=' at configure?
> Could you use 'dd if=/dev/nst0 of=/dev/null bs=32k' to read the tape.
> Try erasing your tape.
>
> Jean-Louis
>
> On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 12:13:31PM -0500, Tim Souder wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > When I attempt to use amlabel to label a tape on a Tandberg/Quantum
> > SDLT 220, it produces the following error:
> >
> > [amanda@Jupiter amanda]$ amlabel -f DailySet1 DailySet100
> > rewinding, reading label, reading label: Value too large for defined data
> > type
> > rewinding, writing label DailySet100, checking label
> > amlabel: reading label: Value too large for defined data type
> >
> > On the same tape, (after a mt rewind), I attempted a dump/restore check to
> > the same tape on the same drive:
> >
> > [root@Jupiter amanda]# dump -0u -a -f /dev/nst0 -L "Jupiter:/" /
> > DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Tue Jan 28 11:56:00 2003
> > DUMP: Dumping /dev/sda5 (/) to /dev/nst0
> > DUMP: Added inode 7 to exclude list (resize inode)
> > DUMP: Label: Jupiter:/
> > DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
> > DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories]
> > DUMP: estimated 81489 tape blocks.
> > DUMP: Volume 1 started with block 1 at: Tue Jan 28 11:56:01 2003
> > DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories]
> > DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files]
> > DUMP: Closing /dev/nst0
> > DUMP: Volume 1 completed at: Tue Jan 28 11:56:17 2003
> > DUMP: Volume 1 82180 tape blocks (80.25MB)
> > DUMP: Volume 1 took 0:00:16
> > DUMP: Volume 1 transfer rate: 5136 kB/s
> > DUMP: 82180 tape blocks (80.25MB) on 1 volume(s)
> > DUMP: finished in 14 seconds, throughput 5870 kBytes/sec
> > DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Tue Jan 28 11:56:00 2003
> > DUMP: Date this dump completed: Tue Jan 28 11:56:17 2003
> > DUMP: Average transfer rate: 5136 kB/s
> > DUMP: DUMP IS DONE
> > [root@Jupiter amanda]# restore -C -D / -f /dev/st0
> > restore: Tape read error on first record
> > restore interrupted, continue? [yn] n
> > [root@Jupiter amanda]# mt rewind
> > [root@Jupiter amanda]# restore -C -D / -f /dev/nst0
> > Dump date: Tue Jan 28 11:56:00 2003
> > Dumped from: the epoch
> > Level 0 dump of / on Jupiter:/dev/sda5
> > Label: Jupiter:/
> > filesys = /
> > ./etc/dumpdates: tape and disk copies are different
> > Some files were modified!
> > [root@Jupiter amanda]# mt rewind
> >
> > Then, i went back to the amanda user, and attempted amlabel and got the
> > same results:
> >
> > [amanda@Jupiter amanda]$ amlabel -f DailySet1 DailySet100
> > rewinding, reading label, reading label: Value too large for defined data
> > type
> > rewinding, writing label DailySet100, checking label
> > amlabel: reading label: Value too large for defined data type
> >
> > Just to be sure, the amanda:backup user has read/write access to /dev/nst0:
> >
> > [amanda@Jupiter amanda]$ ls -l /dev/tape /dev/nst0
> > crw-rw---- 1 root backup 9, 128 Apr 11 2002 /dev/nst0
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Jan 3 12:34 /dev/tape -> nst0
> >
> > ...and the tape definition that I use for the SDLT 220 is:
> > tapetype SDLT220 # what kind of tape it is (see tapetypes below)
> >
> > define tapetype SDLT220 {
> > comment "Tandberg SDLT-220"
> > length 96868 mbytes
> > filemark 0 kbytes
> > speed 9142 kps
> > }
> >
> > Does anyone have any ideas? I've tried google searching to no avail...
> >
> > Thanks in advance for all of your help,
> >
> > Tim Souder
> > tsouder AT mcs.drexel DOT edu
>
>
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