>1) Is this entire section concerned with determining if the next
>tape is the cleaning tape? IOW, is the purpose of the DD to see if we
>are reading a cleaning tape?
No. The purpose appears to be to write the Amanda tape label (i.e.
which tape it is) to the log file. It has nothing to do wi
In the files, chg-manual and chg-mtx there is a function in the code
labelled loadslot(). In this funciton the dd command is used to look
at the tape.
I have excerpted some code from chg-mtx, below...
This appears to be post-processing code following that event wherein a
tape is newly inserte
