Running amanda 2.4.2p2 on solaris 2.6 using a boxhill tape
changer with two DLT7000 drives (only one enabled by config) 
and chg-scsi.  I have 14 DLT IV tapes available for each run.  

There are two dump images which are continually failing to tape.
One is 32247872k - the other about the same.  The error is
always: 

  FAIL driver diglib1 /AMNH/congo/ARCHIVE/photos/4x5a 0 [too many
  taper retries]
  INFO taper retrying diglib1:/AMNH/congo/ARCHIVE/photos/4x5a.0 on
  new tape: [writing file: short write]

(it looks like there are two attempts being made before FAIL is
declared)

I've also tried setting up a seperate config with just these two
file systems (very long mount points - don't look at me - I
didn't set it up) and as many tapes as they could eat.  The error
remained the same.  

It's acting as if the image is just too big for the tape.  I
don't see how that's possible - unless hardware compression snuck
into the mix somehow - this is what's defined in changer.conf:

  changerdev      /dev/rsst6
  #
  # Next comes the data for drive 0
  #
  config          0
  drivenum        0
  dev             /dev/rmt/8n

Can anyone shed some light?  

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fil krohnengold
systems administrator - IT
american museum of natural history
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