hi all, 

        i have installed and configured amanda-2.4.3 for seagate-travan 
        tapes but i get the following looping error when i try to use 
        any of amanda commands. while getting these messages on the console, 
        'kernel: ide-tape: Reached idetape_chrdev_open' is recorded in 
        /var/log/messages.

        i have search the archive but couldn't find help. 

        by the way, i can write to and read from the tapes by using cat. 
        so, the problem is not with the tape or the medium, but with amanda.

        with tapetype program, the resulting type seems to be very slow 
        and the length is much smaller than the specification of the tape 
        ( 1 gb vs 10 gb ). so, there also seems to be some problem out of
        amanda. 

        i have used /dev/ht0 and /dev/nth0, but the result is the same. 
        in dmesg, tape is claimed to be connected to /dev/ht0.

        thanks for any help/comments