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On Tuesday 14 June 2005 19:54, Eduardo Jaime Quiros Batres wrote:
> Good afternoon,
>
> My problem is with an AIT tape (Sony SDX-420C) that does not accept
> variable block format.
>
> If I put mim/max block equal to 32768 and do:
>
> mt -f /dev/st0 setblk 32768
>
> bacula write 32668 bytes (always 100 bytes less independent of blocksize
> stablished). Seems that the tape drive then writes 2 blocks (tape capacity
> goes to less than one half and bacula will give some type of error
> somewhere (or appending, or reading back etc).
> If I do a setblk 32868 bacula will give a message that the blocksize is not
> multiple of device blocksize and I'll have an error on the first write.
>
> Does anyone have experience with tapes that do not let you change the
> blocksize (I can't set block size to 0 (variable))
>
> Thanks,

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