Whoa !  Now I am going back to relabel my tapes.  I have issued the
amlabel command and receive a

rewinding, reading label, not an amanda tape
rewinding, writing label fea01
amlabel: writing label: Input/output error


Could I have a hard ware error of some kind ?  I just rebooted the
system to make sure it was not that.  Just yesterday I labeled 25 tapes
!!

On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 10:07, James D. Freels wrote:
> Hello Amanda-Users !
> 
> I have duplicated my previous amanda backup setup from an existing
> machine to a new machine.  The new machine has a different tape drive
> which I changed the tapetype entry in amanda.conf to:
> 
> define tapetype TDK-DC4-150 {
>     comment "Seagate Scorpion 40 drive with DSS-4 tape and compression"
>     length  30000 mbytes
>     filemark    1 kbytes
>     speed    4800 kps
> }
> 
> All other entries are the same.
> 
> I have also labeled new tapes for this tape drive.
> 
> The amcheck says the tape label is good and is the next tape to be used
> in the backup.  The amcheckdb and amadmin configid tape commands all
> indicate everything is working OK.
> 
> An amdump works by sending all backup files to the holding disk.
> 
> However, I receive the error message shown in the subject line and
> repeated here for both the amdump and amflush commands.
> 
> from the amflush log files:
> 
> driver: result time 0.022 from taper: TAPE-ERROR [not an amanda tape]
> 
> from the amdump log files:
> 
> driver: result time 326.960 from taper: TAPE-ERROR [writing label:
> Input/output error]
> 
> from the log. files of the amdump run:
> 
> ERROR taper no-tape [writing label: Input/output error]
> 
> from the log. files of the amflush run:
> 
> ERROR taper no-tape [not an amanda tape]
> 
> The amtapetype ran OK.
> 
> The tar command runs OK completely independent of amanda to backup files
> to tape that way so I know the tape drive works OK.  This machine is a
> dual-Xeon running Linux 2.4.26 on the Debian/Woody/Stable distribution
> with plenty of memory, etc.
-- 
James D. Freels, Ph.D.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
freelsjd AT ornl DOT gov