On Wednesday, December 3, 2003, at 04:50 AM, C.Scheeder wrote:

Hmmmm,
i'm no free-bsd guru, but....

Jack Twilley schrieb:

Here's the uname output:

FreeBSD duchess.twilley.org 5.1-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT #0: Sat Nov 8 00:40:54 PST 2003 root AT duchess.twilley DOT org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DUCHESS i386

I'm running amanda out of ports:

amanda-client-2.4.4_2,1 The Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver (clie amanda-server-2.4.4_4,1 The Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver (serv

I've started to get the following message in my nightly emails:
*** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [writing label: short write].
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: twilley009.
This is showing up in my messages file:

Dec 3 01:08:19 duchess kernel: (sa0:ahc0:0:6:0): WRITE FILEMARKS. CDB: 10 0 0 0 2 0 Dec 3 01:08:19 duchess kernel: (sa0:ahc0:0:6:0): CAM Status: SCSI Status Error Dec 3 01:08:19 duchess kernel: (sa0:ahc0:0:6:0): SCSI Status: Check Condition Dec 3 01:08:19 duchess kernel: (sa0:ahc0:0:6:0): DATA PROTECT asc:27,0

Dec  3 01:08:19 duchess kernel: (sa0:ahc0:0:6:0): Write protected

is it possible your tape is physical write-protected?
Christoph

Ricky