On Monday 07 February 2005 10:56, Gil Naveh wrote:
>Hello,
>
>We have a new tape drive but I am unsuccessfully running amlabel.
>Some background:
>I was successfully running amlabel on HARD-DISK.
>I modified amanda.conf file to accommodate the new tape drive
>specifications:
>  I added the new tape drive spec - which I got through running
> amtapetype. with the following :
>
>  define tape type ULTRIUM2-LTO{
>    comment "just produced by tape type prog (hardware compression
> off)" length 207465 mbytes
>    filemark 939 kbytes
>    speed 17489 kps
>    }
>
>and added the following line in the 'main' section in amanda.conf
>   tape type ULTRIUM2-LTO
>
>But when I run the command:
># amlabel DailySet1 DailySet1001
>The system ask me:
>#insert tape into slot 1 and press return
>Even though the tape is already in! - I tried to eject and insert
> the tape but it again requested me to insert a tape!
>Is it because Amanda could not identify my tape drive?
>Or maybe it is related to my previous testing of Amanda with our
> hard-drive. I successfully labeled our hard-drive and recently I
> comment it out and labeled the new tape drive?

This would suggest that the tape device really isn't the right tape 
device.  Which /dev/??? do you have it set to, and what OS?

>
>Thanks much,
>gil

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