Nigel,

I believe the only problem with labeling the cleaning tape
is that you can't readilly check the tape label. Cleaning
tapes are really physical device that emulate the SW device
/dev/null, useful for some applications. That is what they
do afterall, absorbe all the left over bits on the drive
heads.

                                                Brian

> Um, no, I hadn't spotted my second typo!
> 
> That explains why correcting the first typo didn't change the behaviour at
> all, it STILL couldn't find the device.
> (whoops)
> 
> Now, amlabel works :)
> 
> So, I'm now labelling the 9 tapes (I'll try to remember not to label the
> cleanertape!)