You may also want to make sure that you have the latest version of
tapetype.  I seem to recall seeing a message a few days ago about a new
and better version of tapetype that didn't make it into 2.4.3.


On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 09:08, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Friday 11 October 2002 10:30, Steve Bertrand wrote:
> >If anyone could help me with the said tapetype it would be greatly
> >apprecaited.
> >
> >I've already got the drive up and ready to roll with amanda.
> >
> >Tks,
> >
> >Steve Bertrand
> >Northumberland Network Services
> 
> Go into the tape-src's directory and type "make tapetype"
> That will make you a drive definer that you can then run against 
> that drive.  Be sure and turn any hardware compression off before 
> starting as that can make the /dev/urandom data grow a bit and give 
> a falsely small size.  Then leave it off...  Forever.  Use software 
> which takes time, but compresses much better.
> 
> -- 
> Cheers, Gene
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