On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 10:28:57AM -0700, Yogish wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> I am facing problems with the tapes. Everytime I try to run amcheck,amverify or 
> amdump it says its expecting a new tape. Here are the results it puts out when I run 
> amcheck
> 
> Amanda Tape Server Host Check
> -----------------------------
> Holding disk /home/amanda: 29635568 KB disk space available, that's plenty
> ERROR: /dev/nst0: reading label: Input/output error
>        (expecting a new tape)
> NOTE: skipping tape-writable test
> Server check took 0.016 seconds
> 

Have you "amlabel"ed the tapes?  The amcheck output makes it appear 'no'.

How many tapes does your tapecycle say and how many have been used so far.
Until you have used that many tapes it always wants a new tape.

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