Hi,
I've been trying unsuccesfully to label a exabyte
160mXL tape on a EXB-8500 drive. I run amlable
as amanda user. backup server is solaris 2.6
with Amanda 2.4.2.
$ id
uid=301(amanda) gid=301(backup)
$ /usr/local/sbin/amlabel DailySet1 DailySet1-000
rewinding, reading label, not an amanda tape
rewinding, writing label DailySet1-000
amlabel: writing endmark: I/O error
$ mt -f /dev/rmt/0cbn status
Exabyte EXB-8500 8mm Helical Scan tape drive:
sense key(0x0)= No Additional Sense residual= 0 retries= 0
file no= 0 block no= 0
then if I run amcheck
$ amcheck DailySet1
Amanda Tape Server Host Check
-----------------------------
Holding disk /d03/amanda: 14674376 KB disk space available, that's plenty
ERROR: /dev/rmt/0bn: reading label: I/O error
(expecting a new tape)
NOTE: skipping tape-writable test
.......
so it is expecting a new tape, but I can not label a tape
as It give me strange I/o error, showning above
I know the tape are good because it have been used before
( not used under amanda,but have been used to dump/tar files on it)
and i tried more then a few tape , all same kind of error.
what do I missed ?
TIA,
Thanks,
jason
