Hi, Dean, on Sonntag, 29. Februar 2004 at 21:18 you wrote to amanda-users:
DAH> I have a seagate STT2000N tape drive and DAH> want to configure amanda to use it. I just DAH> ran: DAH> amtapetype -f /dev/nst0 DAH> and it ran for a long time and then proceeded DAH> to hang my system (RH9). Am I doing this right? Yeah, apart from hanging the OS this is right. Read "man amtapetype" for more infos, look at the option "-e" especially. You can provide the estimated size of a tape to the program via this option. A VERY important thing to check is to have the hardware compression DISABLED. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
