I'd like to thank everyone who helped me with this problem. It
has finally been resolved.
I'm sure people are curious as to what happened (I know I would
be), so here goes:
After my last round of suggestions from people, I tried them
all, but still with no success. I was talking with another tec
Dana Bourgeois
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jon LaBadie
> Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 7:15 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: problem labelling tapes
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 09:43:38AM +0100, Tony
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 09:43:38AM +0100, Tony wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Good idea. I have done this now. Went and downloaded the manual
> and there are two DIP switches that are relevant. I quote from
> the manual:
>
> ---
> Data Compression (switches 1 and 2)
>
> If switch 1 is ON (default), HW dat
On Friday 24 October 2003 04:43, Tony wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Good idea. I have done this now. Went and downloaded the manual
>and there are two DIP switches that are relevant. I quote from
>the manual:
>
>---
>Data Compression (switches 1 and 2)
>
>If switch 1 is ON (default), HW data compression is en
Tony wrote:
That all sounds pretty straight forward. I turned dip switches 1
& 2 OFF so that HW compression is disabled and can't be turned
on again by the software.
But from the description of the problem, it is not the compression
that needs to be disabled. There was the possibility that
you ha
Hi,
Good idea. I have done this now. Went and downloaded the manual
and there are two DIP switches that are relevant. I quote from
the manual:
---
Data Compression (switches 1 and 2)
If switch 1 is ON (default), HW data compression is enabled. If
switch 1 is OFF, HW data compression is disab
Hi Tom,
The story goes as follows:
The tape drive was in a machine, and working fine for about 6
months. Recently (about 3 weeks ago now), backups started
failing with an "out of tape" error if they were over about 14.4
GB. A bit of trawling led me to the conclusion that HW
compression was still
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gene Heskett
> Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 3:00 PM
> To: Tony; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: problem labelling tapes
>
>
> On Thursday 23 October 2003 05:48, Tony wrote:
> >Hi
On Thursday 23 October 2003 05:48, Tony wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I am still having trouble trying to label tapes and Amanda
>recognising them.
>
>I label a tape:
>
>bash-2.05a$ /usr/sbin/amlabel daily daily01fri
>rewinding, reading labelamlabel: strange amanda header: "AMANDA:
>T"
>, not an amanda tape
>
Sorry, not read before hitting send...
Paul Bijnens wrote:
what the settings were), but when you write subsequently to that tape,
the drive does it with these settings, and those that you specified
in stinit.def.
Should be:
.. the drive does it with these settings and NOT those that you
specified
Tony wrote:
As an aside, I did manage to work out the stinit stuff and the
drive is no longer using hardware compression. I did another
tapetype and got the following:
...
which is a lot more like what it should be.
Any suggestions on why it is not recognising the label ?
Now that you have a corr
> Any suggestions on why it is not recognising the label ?
is your drive new/old/dirty/clean?
what about SCSI termination? have you tried a different cable?
has this drive/cable setup ever worked?
Tom
Hi all,
I am still having trouble trying to label tapes and Amanda
recognising them.
I label a tape:
bash-2.05a$ /usr/sbin/amlabel daily daily01fri
rewinding, reading labelamlabel: strange amanda header: "AMANDA:
T"
, not an amanda tape
rewinding, writing label daily01fri, checking label, done.
Hi,
Sorry for the delay in replying (over a week), I got pulled to
another site for a week.
I'm going to combine the results of a few peoples suggestions
into this same email. Thanks for the help thus far.
Things I have done:
1. Created an /etc/stinit.def file so that the block size is set
to "
Hi Paul,
Thanks for the suggestion. I changed the block size to zero, as
per below output. Prior to this, it would appear that it was set
to 512 bytes (not sure where you got 9 from ?).
=
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# /bin/mt -f /dev/nst0 status
SCSI 2 tape drive:
File
Tony wrote:
amcheck-server: strange amanda header: "AMANDA: T"
ERROR: /dev/nst0: not an amanda tape
(expecting tape daily01tue or a new tape)
This seems to me like a blocksize problem. (Not 100% sure,
because your blocksize seems to be 9 bytes!?!??, very uncommon.)
As long as the read bloc
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