On Sunday 22 June 2003 19:19, Jon LaBadie wrote:
>On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 01:00:32AM +0200, Michael Mayer wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've git a DLT VS80i from HP. Writing 64k blocks with default
>> blocksize set via mt command works quite well, but when trying
>> label amanda tapes it seems to insist on using 32k block size for
>> writing. The kernel reports
>>
>> st0: Incorrect block size.
>> st0: Write not multiple of tape block size.
>>
>> Is there any switch in the amanda configuration or may I just have
>> to recompile amanda ? The guys from HP told me that the Tape drive
>> needs the 64k blocksize.
>
>Recent versions (after I think 2.4.3b2) allow you to specify
> blocksize in the tapetype definition.  See the amanda man page.
>
>However, as explained on the man page, it does require a configure
> option before you can deviate from 32 Kbyte blocks.

Oh darn, thats not fair, Jon's been reading the docs again. :-)

Here all I've been reading is the ChangeLog, and I don't recall seeing 
that, so thanks for the heads up in case I wanted to go above 32K for 
a blocksize.

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