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 > AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M > Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M > 99.17% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly -- UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things.
