On Friday 05 April 2002 08:41 am, Shawn Sanders wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>We have been getting alot of
>*** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [[writing file: No space left on
> device]]. server1 /export/share1 lev 1 FAILED [out of tape]
>server1 /export/share1 lev 1 FAILED ["data write: Connection
> reset by peer"] server1 /export/share1 lev 1 FAILED [dump to
> tape failed]
>
>Errors and I am thinking this may be due to the fact we are
> using DDS2 tapes in a DDS3 drive. Since amanda.conf is setup
> for a DDS3 drive does this require DDS3 tapes as well? If so,
> should I put in tapetype of a DDS2?
I thinkyou just answered your own question. If amanda thinks it
has a DDS3 tape with a 12g capacity, its going to try to fill it
up. From the tapetype utility program on a DDS2 tape:
define tapetype DDS2 {
comment "just produced by tapetype program"
length 3780 mbytes
filemark 0 kbytes
speed 380 kps
}
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Cheers, Gene
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