>HI! >Help, pls. >What tapetype for WANGTEK 9500 DC I did a Google search for Wangtek 9500 and as best as I can tell, it is a QIC drive with a capacity of roughly 10 GBytes (probably 9.5, based on the model number). So you can probably guess starting with one of these entries:
http://amanda.sourceforge.net/fom-serve/cache/82.html http://amanda.sourceforge.net/fom-serve/cache/123.html http://amanda.sourceforge.net/fom-serve/cache/135.html Take your pick. They are all probably close enough. If you really want to know, you can build the "tapetype" program that comes with Amanda and run it on a scratch tape: cd tape-src make tapetype ./tapetype -e 10g -t 'Wangtek-9500-DC' -f /dev/whatever Be sure you turn off hardware compression (if your drive does that). Also, get the version of tapetype from Amanda 2.4.2p2 -- it is significantly faster than older ones. However, I gather from reading various things that the performance of these drives is, shall we say, a bit slow. It could very well take days for tapetype to complete, so you might just want to get something that is close from the FAQ above. The numbers in the tapetype are not super critical to Amanda operation (important, yes, critical, no). The speed value is not used at all. The length value is important because it tells planner how much room it has to work with. But if you're well under a tape in size already, it won't matter much. The file mark value just tells Amanda how much overhead there is between images on the tape. Most modern drives have a small enough value that it's not much of an issue. John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
