Hello, I'm installing amanda for the first time on solaris 8 with a dlt 8000 drive. It seems like I need to manualing rewind the tape drive when incerting a fresh tape. Otherwise I get this error - why would mt rewind the drive and amlabel only on the 2nd try?
bash-2.01# su amanda -c "amlabel daily kolea04" rewinding amlabel: tape_rewind: tape open: /dev/rmt/0cn: I/O error bash-2.01# su amanda -c "amlabel daily kolea04" rewinding, reading label, not an amanda tape rewinding, writing label kolea04, checking label, done. bash-2.01# su amanda -c "amlabel daily kolea05" rewinding amlabel: tape_rewind: tape open: /dev/rmt/0cn: I/O error bash-2.01# su amanda -c "amlabel daily kolea05" rewinding amlabel: tape_rewind: tape open: /dev/rmt/0cn: I/O error bash-2.01# su amanda -c "amlabel daily kolea05" rewinding, reading label, not an amanda tape rewinding, writing label kolea05, checking label, done.