On Tuesday 16 November 2004 11:01, Keith Howanitz wrote:
>On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 21:46:38 -0500, Gene Heskett
>
><gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net> wrote:
>> The only thing that comes to mind quickly is to see if ammt can
>> cause that tape to rewind itself, the clue is similar to its not
>> being rewound between passes.
>
>[SNIP]
>
>I have tried using ammt instead of mt with a tar backup and
> everything appeared to function just fine.  Text below
>
>[root]# ammt -d -f /dev/nst0 status
>debug mode!
>syntax: eof                  -> e
>syntax: weof                 -> w
>syntax: fsf                  -> f
>syntax: asf                  -> a
>syntax: bsf                  -> b
>syntax: rewind               -> rewi
>syntax: offline              -> o
>syntax: rewoffl              -> rewo
>syntax: status               -> s
>tapename is "/dev/nst0"
>calling tape_open("/dev/nst0",0)
>processing status(1)
>calling tapefd_status()
>/dev/nst0 status: ONLINE BOT
>
>[root]# ammt -d -f /dev/nst0 rewind
>debug mode!
>syntax: eof                  -> e
>syntax: weof                 -> w
>syntax: fsf                  -> f
>syntax: asf                  -> a
>syntax: bsf                  -> b
>syntax: rewind               -> rewi
>syntax: offline              -> o
>syntax: rewoffl              -> rewo
>syntax: status               -> s
>tapename is "/dev/nst0"
>calling tape_open("/dev/nst0",0)
>processing rewind(1)
>
>[root]# tar -cf /dev/nst0 /mhome/test/
>tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
>
>[root]# ammt -d -f /dev/nst0 rewind
>debug mode!
>syntax: eof                  -> e
>syntax: weof                 -> w
>syntax: fsf                  -> f
>syntax: asf                  -> a
>syntax: bsf                  -> b
>syntax: rewind               -> rewi
>syntax: offline              -> o
>syntax: rewoffl              -> rewo
>syntax: status               -> s
>tapename is "/dev/nst0"
>calling tape_open("/dev/nst0",0)
>processing rewind(1)

That looks ok to me.  And its my best shot ATM as I'm up to my butt in 
alligators here trying to make runtapes=2 work in the verify phase.
Sorry.  Jon?, Paul?  Do either of you have any better ideas?

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