Hello,
On Fri, 23 Nov 2001, Stephen Carville wrote: > I ran tapetype on my new AIT2 drive and it reported a length of 43778 > mbytes uncompressed. I ran a test backup of about 20G and amanda > fails with a write error at about 7G on the first tape and at 4G on > the second tape. Any ideas why this is happening? Amanda works fine > with the AIT1 drive and 170m tape on the same machine. > > The file system it fails on about 17G. > I just had the same issue, sorta. My problem was that my AIT-2 drive was in an external enclosure that was causing the drive to reset itself. Verify you do not have a bad SCSI cable. Is the tape drive on the same SCSI bus as the holding disk? Can you successfully run "mt" comands? Andrew
