On Friday 30 September 2005 02:54, Montagni, Giovanni wrote:
>I have changed our tape drive, because it started to fail to write on
> tape. I have changed it with the same model.
>
>After sostitution, amanda cannot recognise the tape, every day it give
> me error like "Not an amanda tape", and i have to amrmtape then amlabel
> the tape again.
>
>Is it possible to solve this problem?
>
>sorry for bad english.
>
>Giovanni

The old drive may not have been doing a good job of rewriting the
labels, which are rewritten with the new date contained therein for
each use. As long as you don't have to do that to the same tape again
till its worn out, you should be ok.

Frankly, and I'm reading between the lines here, and coming to the
conclusion that many of todays drive are being built by robots and
the tracking adjustments that allow tape interchange between drives
is being done poorly, or not at all.  I'd certainly let the vendor
know that you are having a problem in that area.

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