amcheck keeps telling me that my selected backup tape drive "is not a tape device". Both mtx status for the library and mt when I query the device say its a tape drive. Guessing I'm getting a non-meaningful error message and that something else is wrong. I'm using mhvtl to present virtual tapes and libraries. Running on Rocky Linux 9.5: Linux bend.local.davenjudy.org 5.14.0-503.35.1.el9_5.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu Apr 3 12:12:16 UTC 2025 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Update 9 April 2025:
Just to see what it would say I tried running amtapetype on /dev/nst0 and I got told the drive was busy when its not. Also, I was able to use tar at the command line to write a tar archive to the drive that amanda says isn't a tape device. Best I've got so far that this is an amanda problem. These spurious responses may be related.
amcheck keeps telling me that my selected backup tape drive "is not a tape device". Both mtx status for the library and mt when I query the device say its a tape drive. Guessing I'm getting a non-meaningful error message and that something else is wrong. I'm using mhvtl to present virtual tapes and libraries. Running on Rocky Linux 9.5: Linux bend.local.davenjudy.org 5.14.0-503.35.1.el9_5.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu Apr 3 12:12:16 UTC 2025 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Update 9 April 2025:
Just to see what it would say I tried running amtapetype on /dev/nst0 and I got told the drive was busy when its not. Also, I was able to use tar at the command line to write a tar archive to the drive that amanda says isn't a tape device. Best I've got so far that this is an amanda problem. These spurious responses may be related.