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


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