On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 06:47:15AM -0700, abrantes wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to configure Amanda in my system (actualy with ARCServe 9), but
> I'm having some dificulties with amtapetype. My system is:
> 
> Hardware: Dell PowerEdge 1600SC
> OS: SuSE Linux Enterprise 8 (32 bits)
> Tape Device: Dell Power Vault 110T DLT VS 80
> Amanda: 2.5.2-20070525
> 
> When I use tapetype, I'm getting the follow error message:
> 
> $ amtapetype -o -e 40g -f /dev/nst0 -t "DELL_POWERVAULT_110T_DLT_VS_80"
> Estimate phase 1...amtapetype: could not write any data in this pass:
> Invalid argument

First thing to ask is can you do anything with your tape drive
outside of amanda?  Can you check status with mt, write to it
with dd and/or tar, rewind it with mt, recover what you wrote?

> 
> Amchek is OK:
> 
> $ amcheck diario
...
> not an amanda tape (Read 0 bytes)
> (expecting a new tape)

Even a failing tapedrive might give this info (read 0 bytes).


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