The Operating system is Solaris 9 and tape drive is under /dev/rmt/0n which is the defualt for Solaris.
Thx, gil -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gene Heskett Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 12:43 PM To: amanda-users@amanda.org Cc: Gil Naveh Subject: Re: AMLABEL On Monday 07 February 2005 10:56, Gil Naveh wrote: >Hello, > >We have a new tape drive but I am unsuccessfully running amlabel. >Some background: >I was successfully running amlabel on HARD-DISK. >I modified amanda.conf file to accommodate the new tape drive >specifications: > I added the new tape drive spec - which I got through running > amtapetype. with the following : > > define tape type ULTRIUM2-LTO{ > comment "just produced by tape type prog (hardware compression > off)" length 207465 mbytes > filemark 939 kbytes > speed 17489 kps > } > >and added the following line in the 'main' section in amanda.conf > tape type ULTRIUM2-LTO > >But when I run the command: ># amlabel DailySet1 DailySet1001 >The system ask me: >#insert tape into slot 1 and press return >Even though the tape is already in! - I tried to eject and insert > the tape but it again requested me to insert a tape! >Is it because Amanda could not identify my tape drive? >Or maybe it is related to my previous testing of Amanda with our > hard-drive. I successfully labeled our hard-drive and recently I > comment it out and labeled the new tape drive? This would suggest that the tape device really isn't the right tape device. Which /dev/??? do you have it set to, and what OS? > >Thanks much, >gil -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.32% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.