Greets everybody;

Last nite I used a different, slightly older model of that Seagate 
CTL-96 drive, which seemed to work, with one glareing exception.  My 
little extra script does a 'tell' operaion on the tape before it 
tries to write the seperate indice and config files to the end of it, 
and it failed to write because the 'tell' returned a value many times 
the expected value for a 32k blocksize tape.

TBE it returned a value indicating this tape was made with a blocksize 
of 32 bytes!

But no other errors were reported.  So it looks as if I'd better cycle 
thru the other 3 tapes, (they are freshly labeled tapes since those 4 
tapes are stuck in the other failed drive), doing a dd on the label 
and checking to see if they are at block 64 after reading the label.

What is the std fix for this?  I'd done an "mt -f /dev/nst0 setblk 
32k" last nite.  Did mt not recognize the 'k'?

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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