Hi Andreas, This problem should be fixed in latest snapshot.
Jean-Louis On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 09:06:01PM +0100, Andreas Sundstrom wrote: > I might have stumbled on a bug in amtapetype. I believe it's the new > functionality to check for a amanda label that has introduced it. > > This explains it quite well I think: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ amtapetype -c -e 35g -f /dev/nst1 > amtapetype: /dev/nst1: reading label: Input/output error > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ amlabel ait ait02 > rewinding, reading label, reading label: Input/output error > rewinding, writing label ait02, checking label, done. > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ amrmtape ait ait02 > amrmtape: remove label ait02. > amrmtape: preserving original database in curinfo.orig.26294 (exported). > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ amtapetype -c -e 35g -f /dev/nst1 > amtapetype: The tape is an amanda tape, use -o to overwrite the tape > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ amtapetype -c -e 35g -f /dev/nst1 -o > Writing 128 Mbyte compresseable data: 42 sec > Writing 128 Mbyte uncompresseable data: 42 sec > Estimated time to write 2 * 35840 Mbyte: 23520 sec = 6 h 32 min > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ > > I think that this was a new tape, never written to earlier. > > Just wanted to file a report so it might be fixed. > > /Andreas Sundström -- Jean-Louis Martineau email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Département IRO, Université de Montréal C.P. 6128, Succ. CENTRE-VILLE Tel: (514) 343-6111 ext. 3529 Montréal, Canada, H3C 3J7 Fax: (514) 343-5834
