On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 06:11:05PM +0100, Markus Diesinng wrote: > Hi! > > Everything seemed to work fine until I typed amcheck, because I get the > following message for every slot the changer got: > > amcheck-server: slot 5: reading label: Input/output error > > The same happens when I try to label a new tape etc. > > I checked the FAQ and saw that the problem is more likely to be a > hardware or system one. Anyway, and I hope it's not too off topic here, > could someone pls help me find out if it's amanda, the system (an SuSE > 8.2 Linux) or the tape library itself. I would like to be sure that it#s > broken before I send it to HP. The box doesn' have warranty anymore... > > Thanks in advance for your suggestions.
* bad tapes? * dirty heads? * scsi terminator problems? * scsi cable problems? * any messages in the system log files? * amanda commands are not the only ones that can use the drive, do you have problems using dd, tar, cpio, dump, cat, to write and read to the tape? -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
