On Monday 07 February 2005 18:31, Paul Bijnens wrote:
>Gil Naveh wrote:
>> 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
>
>Add an estimate value!  And it takes about 5 hours only. Without
>an estimate it takes a week or so.  Like this:
>
>   amtapetype -f /dev/rmt/0n -e 200g
>
>On the other hand, writing a few bytes is enough to see it the drive
>works.
>
>About the problem: you did specify that device in your amanda.conf ?
>(I believe that was what Gene was hinting about.)

Chuckle, yup.  Sometimes I get my tongue tangled up with my eyeteeth, 
and can't see what I'm writing...  Corrections in that case are 
always welcome. :-)

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