Gene,

Thank you for your reply, but I don't fully understand...

What do you mean "use the device intended, not /dev/nst0"?

On my machine /dev/nst0 is major device 9, minor 128:

ls -l /dev/nst0
crw-rw----    1 root     disk       9, 128 Aug 30  2002 /dev/nst0

Are you suggesting that /dev/st0 is the device and /dev/nst0 is not?

Thanks,
Dick

> >On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 01:15:26AM -0000, rwk AT americom DOT com 
> enlightened us:
> >> I am trying to run amanda 2.4.2 on Linux RH8.0 using an Onstream
> >> ADR50 drive.
> >>
> >> I am having problems and I have tracked it down to a variable
> >> block size issue.  for example, if I do the following:
> >>
> >>      mt -f /dev/nst0 setblk 0
> >
> >My device for this drive is /dev/nosst0, not /dev/nst0. Could that
> > be the problem?
> 
> I'd not think so Matt.  While I have no first hand knowledge about 
> that /dev/nosst0 device, but my *SWAG says that devices useage will 
> call in some code to deal with the OnStream drives, some of which 
> have been what we could call 'problem children' in the past.  Thats 
> based on the added 'os' for OnStream in the devices english 
> language nameing.
> 
> Besides if I was going to do a setblk 0, to me it would makes ense 
> to use the device intended, not /dev/nst0.
> 
> However, this is all just a *Scientific Wild Assed Guess, and I 
> could well be full of it...  Ymmv in other words :)
> 
> -- 
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