Quoting Galen Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > The filemark is just a way for tape systems to waste tape...be glad that > it's zero...the real question is what is the advertised capacity of > these tapes?
7G uncompressed. The tape drive I have is listed below: http://www.cpuinc.com/8700.html > Did you turn off hardware compression? What is the error > given in the logs? $ mt -f /dev/nst0 status SCSI 2 tape drive: File number=0, block number=0, partition=0. Tape block size 1024 bytes. Density code 0x0 (default). Soft error count since last status=0 General status bits on (41010000): BOT ONLINE IM_REP_EN $ mt -f /dev/nst0 densities Some SCSI tape density codes: code explanation 0x00 default <snip> I could not find what the "default" setting of the tape drive is. Nor could I find a way or option in the densities to force uncompressed (if the default is compressed). Several errors: Sep 30 20:38:27 linux kernel: st0: Error with sense data: Info fld=0x3c0, Defer red st09:00: sense key Medium Error Sep 28 15:27:22 linux xinetd[12977]: START: amanda pid=13189 from=127.0.0.1 Sep 28 15:27:22 linux xinetd[13189]: {general_handler} (13189) Unexpected signal: 11 (Segmentation fault) -- Bob Tanner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.mn-linux.org, Minnesota, Linux | Fax : (952)943-8500 http://www.tcwug.org, Minnesota, Wireless | Coding isn't a crime. Key fingerprint = AB15 0BDF BCDE 4369 5B42 1973 7CF1 A709 2CC1 B288
