My apologies for lowering the S/N ratio of the list: I'm barking
up the wrong tree: it must have been the tape itself,
or the drive (an Exabyte Magnum224) --though all I did was run
amtapetype, like so

nohup /usr/local/sbin/amtapetype -o -e 400g -f /dev/nst0 -t LTO3-400G

mytype 2>&1 &

honest!

On 6/10/07, FL <lengyel AT gmail DOT com> wrote:

Hi,
After some trouble with an rpm version of amanda, I tried compiling
the latest amanda on my system, starting with

 ./configure --with-user=amanda --with-group=disk
--with-tape-device=/dev/nst1 --with-change-device=/dev/sg5
--with-config=Daily

But after this, /dev/nst1 times out even with the mt command.
So I'm wondering whether this is pure coincidence, or whether the new amanda
has anything to do with this...

I'm running a test with another tape just in (probably likely)
case I'm barking up the wrong tree.