Hi,

On Saturday 22 January 2005 14:45, Sören Edzen wrote:

> I have problem using amrecover. I get the following output:
[...]
> Extracting files using tape drive /dev/nst0 on host zampo.edzen.net.
> Load tape zampo103 now
> Continue [?/Y/n/s/t]?
> EOF, check amidxtaped.<timestamp>.debug file on zampo.edzen.net.
> amrecover: short block 0 bytes
> UNKNOWN file
> amrecover: Can't read file header
> extract_list - child returned non-zero status: 1
> ---------- End output amrecover ---------------

Try mt -f /dev/rmt0 rewind before using amrecover or use 
/dev/rmt0 with amrecover, because /dev/nst0 is the non-rewinding device 
file. If the tape is not at the beginning, amrecover can't read the whole 
tape.


regards,
andreas