On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 07:10:39PM +0200, Arnd wrote: > > Paul Bijnens wrote: > >Normal scsi voodoo: is the cable terminated? Did you sacrifice > >a chicken? ... > > > >Can you read/write to the tape when not using amanda tools, e.g. > >simple: dd if=somefile bs=32k of=/dev/st0 > > I must say that my first thought really was the chicken ;-). > > Well, it was your second tip... While choosing the bloksize of 32k for > "dd" I was running into I/O errors on the tape drive so the next step is > to check the blocksize of that tapedrive: > > $ mt -f /dev/st0 status > SCSI 2 tape drive: > File number=0, block number=1, partition=0. > Tape block size 65536 bytes. Density code 0x42 (no translation). > Soft error count since last status=0 > General status bits on (1010000): > ONLINE IM_REP_EN > > While I couldn't find the option to specify the blocksize in the > tapetype I simply changed the blocksize of that tapedrive: >
Its called blocksize :) -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
