On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 10:28:08AM -0400, Steven Settlemyre enlightened us:
> None of my tapes are new. I put the next 3 tapes that I have in the 
> changer and run amcheck. It seems to be ok with 2 of the 3 tapes but 
> gives me "not an amanda tape (Input/output error)" for slot 3. So I read 
> the archives and they say to label the tape, so I run amlabel:
> 
> BASH>/usr/sbin/amlabel -f monthly Monthly53 slot 3
> changer: got exit: 0 str: 3 /dev/nst0
> labeling tape in slot 3 (/dev/nst0):
> rewinding
> amlabel: tape_rewind: rewinding tape: /dev/nst0: Input/output error
> amlabel: tape_rewind: rewinding tape: /dev/nst0: Input/output error
> amlabel: pid 17508 finish time Wed Oct 11 09:40:36 2006
> 
> Is this a tape problem or am I approaching this incorrectly?
>

Looks like a tape error to me. Can you read/write it with standard tools
(dd, tar, etc.)?

Matt

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Matt Hyclak
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