> From looking at the docs and some quick googling, I don't think stacker > mode works like this. Yes, it will automatically load the next tape when > it hits EOT, but I don't see any indications that the autoloader firmware > virtualizes this and presents one contiguous tape to the OS. > > So you're going to have to split that big fs up (using tar). Whether you > stay in stacker mode or go back to random is up to you. Myself, I'd go > back to random.
I have an autochanger here that is in stacker mode, and it seems that this is in fact (not one contiguous tape) how it appears to work, although I havn't done extensive testing with it. I suppose if you _really_ wanted to keep it in stack mode, you could try to kludge something together with chg-manual, where it ejects the tape, auto-loads the next then tells it to continue. At that rate you may as well go back to running it in random mode though.
