My guess would be the "Unknown tape drive type" is the cause of the problem.
The problem is that in between the "-> status" and the "-> loaded",
chg-manual is running the "mt status" command and hoping to find "ONLINE" in
its results. In my version of mt, ONLINE is one of the General Status Bits.
Once mt understands your tape drive, chg-manual should start working.
Do you have another version of mt?
-----Original Message-----
From: George Herson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 11:35 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: amlabel not seeing tape
Hi. I'm trying to amlabel my Travan5 tape in my Linux 2.2.14-5.0
machine but i get: "insert tape into slot and press return" in a
loop. Taking the tape out and putting it back in doesn't help.
Pressing return just repeats the message.
The exact command i'm using is:
/usr/local/sbin/amlabel Dell-Full Dell-Full010430.
More info:
# cat /tmp/amanda/amlabel.20010430202942.debug shows:
amlabel: debug 1 pid 9561 ruid 507 euid 507 start time Mon Apr 30
20:29:42 2001
# tail /tmp/amanda/changer.debug shows:
-> rewind /dev/nht0
-> status /dev/nht0
Unknown tape drive type (type code 0)
File number=0, block number=0.
mt_resid: 0, mt_erreg: 0x0
mt_dsreg: 0x200, mt_gstat: 0x0
General status bits on (0):
-> loaded <>
-> rewind /dev/nht0
The tape, drive, and /dev/ht0 are known to work, with tar.
Suggestions? Thanks alot,
george herson
p.s. I had been trying to post this via
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/amanda-users/ 's web interface last night
and this morning but i still haven't seen it appear there, so hopefully
this isn't a repeated post. If it is, i apologize.
