amcheck says my tape "is not a tape device" #277
Description
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.