On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 01:51:28PM -0500, John R. Jackson wrote:
> All sorts of things might have happened to cause the amount of data
> written to vary enough to generate this file mark size guess.  A little
> more "shoe shining" because of the additional file marks (and flushes),
> dirt left on the heads from the first pass of a brand new tape, the
> temperature/humidity changed during the multi-hour run, a different amount
> of data was written after the last file mark before EOT was reported, etc.

Why amtapetype doesn't count these last blocks (from the last files). I know
there is some buffer (kernel, drive), but the error will be the same
for both pass.

Jean-Louis
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