Greets everybody; Last nite I used a different, slightly older model of that Seagate CTL-96 drive, which seemed to work, with one glareing exception. My little extra script does a 'tell' operaion on the tape before it tries to write the seperate indice and config files to the end of it, and it failed to write because the 'tell' returned a value many times the expected value for a 32k blocksize tape.
TBE it returned a value indicating this tape was made with a blocksize of 32 bytes! But no other errors were reported. So it looks as if I'd better cycle thru the other 3 tapes, (they are freshly labeled tapes since those 4 tapes are stuck in the other failed drive), doing a dd on the label and checking to see if they are at block 64 after reading the label. What is the std fix for this? I'd done an "mt -f /dev/nst0 setblk 32k" last nite. Did mt not recognize the 'k'? -- Cheers, Gene AMD [EMAIL PROTECTED] 320M [EMAIL PROTECTED] 512M 99.26% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2003 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
