Figured it out... Once the drive recognises the tape it takes another 4 to 5 seconds before it's actually ready to do anything with it.
-----Original Message----- From: John R. Jackson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: March 14, 2002 11:21 PM To: Stott, Trevor Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: amlabel problem >This is what I'm getting when I try to do an amlabel to a new tape. Is this >an amlabel problem or a tape drive problem? What version of Amanda? What OS? >rewinding, reading label, reading label: Value too large for defined data type I *think* what this says is that amlabel was built for 32 bit file systems but the kernel (or libc?) is using 64 bit structures (but that's kind of a wild guess). Did you build Amanda yourself or use some evil, you get what you deserve, pre-packaged thing :-)? >Trevor. John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
