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On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 03:58:08PM +0200, Sinan KALKAN wrote:
>       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.

>       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.

Not clear yet.  Reading/writing your tapes with cat(1) is a little
unconventional.

Try reading/writing your tapes with GNU tar/dd(1), and manipulating
them with mt(1) (status, fsf, rewind).  If that all works flawlessly,
then maybe you've got an Amanda problem.

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