Great... that seems to have worked.  Now I am getting the following message:
amlabel: could not load slot "0": open: /dev/ch0: Permission denied

I think I just need to be sure that the operator is in the right group. 
Thanks for your help.

Doug


>
> Doug,
>
>> tapedev "/dev/nsa0"     # the no-rewind tape device to be used
>
> I'm not sure if this is your problem, but my amanda.conf's tapedev looks
> like this:
>
> tapedev "0"             # the  says to look at chg-scsi.conf config 0
>
> Your setting above might be causing amanda to not look in chg-scsi for
> settings.  Just a quick guess.
>
> -Fran
>
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> Fran Fabrizio
> Senior Systems Analyst
> Department of Computer and Information Sciences
> University of Alabama at Birmingham
> fran AT cis.uab DOT edu
> www.cis.uab.edu
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>
>