>I upgraded mt from 0.5b to 0.6 but the "insert tape into slot  and press
>return"-loop problem remains.

Now you know why we're dumping dependency on mt in the next Amanda
release.  Every vendor in the world generates a different output format
and parsing them is next to impossible.

What happens if you unload the tape and run "mt -f /dev/nht0 status"?
I need to see that output and compare it to the status output when you
do have a tape loaded, then come up with a change to the regular
expression to tell them apart.

Grumble, mutter, ...

>george herson

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