On Wed, 2002-05-01 at 14:19, Cory Visi wrote: > I have checked an double-checked and the tapes I use are not > write-protected. In fact, when I attempt to label a write-protected tape, > I receive the error "Read-only device" >
Well, I was thinking more along the lines of: <bldlinux71> mt -f /dev/nst0 status SCSI 2 tape drive: File number=-1, block number=-1, partition=0. Tape block size 1024 bytes. Density code 0x0 (default). Soft error count since last status=0 General status bits on (1010000): ONLINE IM_REP_EN If yours said something like "Tape block size 9177 bytes" or such like you would get an error 'cause a 32k write (which is what amanda generally does) would not be a multiple of the blocksize. You probalby want to do mt -f /dev/nst0 setblk 0 for variable block mode. There may be some other parameters that are keeping that drive from writing a label. At any rate, you may want to ask a Linux user list rather than amanda-users as I don't think the problem you are having is an amanda configuration issue, but rather a system one.
