Re: am* says my tape "is not a tape device"

  I think Linux doesn't see this as a disk, no messages about the tape 
in logs (dmesg, message etc ...).

  Unfortunately I can't hook to a different OS

Cheers,
Nuno

On 20/04/2026 11:35, Hauke Fath wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Apr 2026 10:37:34 +0100, Nuno Dias wrote:
>> I'm using amanda for years, with a Tape Robot and LTO4 and LTO6
>> drives without problems (excluding minor issues).
>>
>>   Now, I have a new Tape Robot with LTO9 drives, and I can't do
>> anything with amanda, using amlabel or amtape for example, in the
>> first interaction work, but in the second interaction complains that
>> tape "is not a tape device".
> 
> This is a WAG - newer LTO formats support accessing the tape as a
> filesystem <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_Tape_File_System>.
> 
> I wonder if the OS (linux?) sees the tape drive as a disk? What does
> the kernel log during device attachment? Are you able to hook up the
> drive to a different OS for comparison?
> 
> Cheerio,
> Hauke
> 
> (who is still on LTO-4)
> 

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