On Monday 21 February 2005 10:01, Paul Bijnens wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> Silly Q? Could this be the reason I've blamed amanda for not >> being able to rewind the tape in a Seagate 4586N changer? And >> while amanda couldn't rewind it, mt could? > >I don't think so. The file contains parameters to set blocksize >and hw-compression if different modes. But rewind is (AFAIK) a > generic scsi-tape command. Anyway, amanda does not read that file; > adding it would not a difference for amanda.
No, amanda does, but presumably stinit does. OTOH, I don't believe I've ever run stinit either, although I have looked at the manpage for it, without finding the answer to any of my 'itches' :) >"man stinit" gives some idea what can be configured in the file. > >> Humm, on inspecting that file, I find its quite jurassic, offering >> no clues for anything newer than whats obviously decade+ old DDS1 >> drives. And no mention of rewind capabilities for any drive IIRC. >> So I doubt its connected with my non-rewinding chg-scsi script >> useage. I should correct that, it treats DDS1's with data compression, and DDS2-3-4's the same, or does in my version of the file. In any event, it wasn't any help to me at the time. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.34% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
