I hope this wasn't posted recently; I've just rejoined after many
years and have only read the past couple of weeks of traffic in the
archives.

I'm running 2.5.0 on Fedora Core 5 (rpms build from Fedora CVS plus
the "amtape update" patch).  I'm dumping to an LTO3 drive in an
Exabyte Magnum 1x7 changer.

The changer works great; Amanda can cycle through it and find the
tapes it needs, and backups go smoothly.  But the problem comes when
there's no appropriate tape in the changer.  In this case, amcheck
goes through the whole changer, decides it can't find an appropriate
tape, and does nothing.  If I call it with -a instead of -m, I get:

Subject: MATH AMCHECK REPORT: NO PROBLEMS FOUND

Amanda Tape Server Host Check
-----------------------------
Holding disk /local/amanda/work: 203375 MB disk space available, using 203275 MB
slot 7: read label `A00007', date `20060503'
slot 1: read label `A00008', date `20060505'
slot 2: read label `A00002', date `20060426'
slot 3: read label `A00003', date `20060427'
slot 4: read label `A00004', date `20060428'
slot 5: read label `A00005', date `20060429'
slot 6: read label `A00006', date `20060502'

       (expecting a new tape)
Server check took 266.366 seconds

Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
--------------------------------
Client check: 14 hosts checked in 10.024 seconds, 0 problems found

(brought to you by Amanda 2.5.0)

(I note that it doesn't seem to use the barcode database to find the
tapes.  I hope that's not related.)

Any ideas?
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