Help w/ DI-30

[Lew Gaiter III]

OK - I give up,

  I've been trying to get this going by myself for a couple of weeks now.

  First I have the patches for the 2.2.16 kernel from On-Stream and the
drive seems to work fine w/ tar and the "mt" commands.  And yes I did
read the "DI-30" is broken, but those messages seem to pre-date the
patches from OnStream.

 I'm running RedHat 7.0.  I can "label" the tape and even read the label,
but whenever I run amdump it "corrupts" the tape.  Result any attempt
to read the tape results in an I/O error.  BTW, the backup appears to work
just fine, I just can't read the tape to recover.

Note:  I can use "tar" (w/ blocksize 32K) to read and write the tape.

  The following is my tapetype entry:

        define tapetype DI-30 {
            comment "OnStream DI-30"
            length 14400 mbytes
            filemark 32 kbytes
            speed 970 kbytes
        }

  Any ideas ?

    I'm running Amanda 2.4.1p1.  I have compiled 2.4.2p1, but haven't
figured
  out how to install it on a machine other than the machine it compiled on
(A *must*
  requirement).

        Thanks !
        Lew