Having exhausted all other resources, I'm turning to the list... I have just installed a Superloader 3 with a DLT-V4 drive on my Amanda backup system. This drive replaces a non-robotic DLT-V4 which failed recently.
I loaded up my original 12 tapes along with three fresh tapes and a cleaning tape (16 slots). (It turns out I loaded the two cartridges backwards, but that is irrelevant to my problem.) The next tape in sequence when the original drive failed was 12 (CAMPUS-12). The cleaning tape is in slot 8 and is not listed in my changer definition. I ran a quick amcheck and amanda locate tape 12 (slot 4). I then ran an amflush to purge the holding disk (quite full by this time). Everything went fine. At this point I ran another amcheck to be sure things were setup for the next run and the chunks began to fly. Amanda began searching for tape 1 (CAMPUS-01) which is in slot 9. It found the tape, but complained about an error. i pulled the cartridge and checked the physical state of the tape; everything looked fine. So I reloaded the cartridge and executed amtape show to get a look from amanda's prospective. Below is what amtape show says. Slots 5-7 are new, unlabeled tapes, so the errors are expected... I assume. However, the mtx error is troubling. This same error shows up if I do 'mtx -f /dev/sg4 load 9' and then do 'amcheck -t config' or any variation thereof. 'mtx -f /dev/sg4 load 9' followed by 'mtx -f /dev/sg4 status' shows the tape loads up fine. I was also able to 'amrmtape' and 'amlabel' this same tape and amanda reported success writing the label. However, it still persists in this error with 'amcheck.' Is this simply a bad tape? Any help would be greatly appreciated! Kind Regards, Chris $ amtape campus show amtape: scanning all 15 slots in changer: slot 1: date 20120108230004 label CAMPUS-09 slot 2: date 20120119172116 label CAMPUS-10 slot 3: date 20120119191431 label CAMPUS-11 slot 4: date 20120119210149 label CAMPUS-12 slot 5: Error reading Amanda header: Error reading 32768 bytes from /dev/st0: Input/output error slot 6: Error reading Amanda header: Error reading 32768 bytes from /dev/st0: Input/output error slot 7: Error reading Amanda header: Error reading 32768 bytes from /dev/st0: Input/output error ERROR: error from mtx: Loading media from Storage Element 9 into drive 0...mtx: Request Sense: Long Report=yes mtx: Request Sense: Valid Residual=no mtx: Request Sense: Error Code=70 (Current) mtx: Request Sense: Sense Key=Hardware Error mtx: Request Sense: FileMark=no mtx: Request Sense: EOM=no mtx: Request Sense: ILI=no mtx: Request Sense: Additional Sense Code = 53 mtx: Request Sense: Additional Sense Qualifier = 00 mtx: Request Sense: BPV=no mtx: Request Sense: Error in CDB=no mtx: Request Sense: SKSV=no MOVE MEDIUM from Element Address 264 to 32 Failed $
