On Wednesday 13 July 2005 19:30, Alan Brown wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Kern Sibbald wrote:
> >> There is something on the tape which bacula doesn't like when it scans
> >> the start of the tape. Writing an EOF solves the problem but it means
> >> tapes need massaging and can't simply be unwrapped, labelled and stuck
> >> in magazines.
> >
> > Well, this is a function of the drive and the OS. Bacula does a read of
> > the tape. If you have an old stupid drive an the tape is blank, it runs
> > away.
>
> this doesn't happen.
>
> > If
> > you have a modern drive and a good OS, it should report some sort of
> > "error", in which case Bacula will assume the tape is not labeled and
> > proceed with labeling and using it. I don't know what more I can do.
>
> It does, but up till now Bacula has refused to label it. Has this
> behaviour changed recently?
No.
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Kern
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