On Sunday 22 June 2003 19:19, Jon LaBadie wrote: >On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 01:00:32AM +0200, Michael Mayer wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've git a DLT VS80i from HP. Writing 64k blocks with default >> blocksize set via mt command works quite well, but when trying >> label amanda tapes it seems to insist on using 32k block size for >> writing. The kernel reports >> >> st0: Incorrect block size. >> st0: Write not multiple of tape block size. >> >> Is there any switch in the amanda configuration or may I just have >> to recompile amanda ? The guys from HP told me that the Tape drive >> needs the 64k blocksize. > >Recent versions (after I think 2.4.3b2) allow you to specify > blocksize in the tapetype definition. See the amanda man page. > >However, as explained on the man page, it does require a configure > option before you can deviate from 32 Kbyte blocks.
Oh darn, thats not fair, Jon's been reading the docs again. :-) Here all I've been reading is the ChangeLog, and I don't recall seeing that, so thanks for the heads up in case I wanted to go above 32K for a blocksize. -- 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.
