Nuno Dias's Mail: > On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 18:30 -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 10:56:18PM +0000, Nuno Dias wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I compiled the amanda-2.4.5p1 and when I try to run the command > > > "amtapetype" I'm get this error. > > > > > > # amtapetype -o -f /dev/nrst10 > > > Estimate phase 1... > > > > > > Writing 4096 Mbyte compresseable data: 260 sec > > > Estimate phase 2...amtapetype: could not write any data in this pass: > > > short write I have the same problem with a DDS3 tape drive (HP-C1537A), and it seems that the drive / driver returns immediately after a rewind operation, but a following write returns unsuccessfully if the rewind did not complete yet.
Maybe there is a jumper or SCSI option to disable this behaviour, but I did go into these details (yet). Bye \franz
