On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 06:11:05PM +0100, Markus Diesinng wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Everything seemed to work fine until I typed amcheck, because I get the 
> following message for every slot the changer got:
> 
> amcheck-server: slot 5: reading label: Input/output error
> 
> The same happens when I try to label a new tape etc.
> 
> I checked the FAQ and saw that the problem is more likely to be a 
> hardware or system one. Anyway, and I hope it's not too off topic here, 
> could someone pls help me find out if it's amanda, the system (an SuSE 
> 8.2 Linux) or the tape library itself. I would like to be sure that it#s 
> broken before I send it to HP. The box doesn' have warranty anymore...
> 
> Thanks in advance for your suggestions.

* bad tapes?
* dirty heads?
* scsi terminator problems?
* scsi cable problems?
* any messages in the system log files?
* amanda commands are not the only ones that can use the drive,
  do you have problems using dd, tar, cpio, dump, cat, to write
  and read to the tape?

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