Gene - thanks for trying to help,

Currently the only reason that I can think of is that Amanda has not read
correctly our tape drive so I am re-running
#amtapetype -f /dev/rmt/0n

By tomorrow I'll see what the results are and hopefully it should work...
Any thoughts why amlabel is not working are mostly welcome.

gil


-----Original Message-----
From: Gene Heskett [mailto:gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net]
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 5:52 PM
To: Gil Naveh
Subject: Re: AMLABEL


On Monday 07 February 2005 13:57, Gil Naveh wrote:
>The Operating system is Solaris 9
>and tape drive is under /dev/rmt/0n which is the defualt for
> Solaris.
>
>Thx,
>gil
>
Ok, then thats out of my field of expertise (such as it is), so take
this back to the mailing list where Jon LaBadie seems to be our
resident solaris expert, he can probably help you where I would be
making only SWAG's.

>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
>[mailto:owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org]On Behalf Of Gene Heskett
>Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 12:43 PM
>To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
>Cc: Gil Naveh
>Subject: Re: AMLABEL
>
>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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