Hi,

thank you for the advices. We have very similar configurations, and I'm 
sure I'm not too far from the solution. I tried to use your settings in 
the storage daemon config file, and the "mt" options as well, than I 
didn't try so far.

But, as soon as I put those settings, I have another error

        Hardware End of Medium = No     # defaut is Yes
        Fast Forward Space File = No    # This line required if above

which is :
3-May 02:20 setmseblx0007-sd JobId 170: Error: Unable to position to end 
of data on device "IBMLTO4" (/dev/nst0): ERR=dev.c:1354 ioctl MTFSF 
error on "IBMLTO4" (/dev/nst0). ERR=Input/output error.

Strange that it works for you then ... I issued all the "mt" commands 
you wrote. Tapeinfo gives me the samed infos as you have, but it's MTFSF 
error or MTEOM ...

Regards
Yvan Broccard
> I also had very similar problems when I first started testing Bacula. Now,
> I have both TS3100 & TS3200 models running without any issues on
> RedHat 4 and 5 servers. My configurations are:
>
> Autochanger {
>         Name = TS3200_1_DRV1
>         Device = LTO4_1
>         Changer Device = /dev/sg7       # This is mapped to the AutoLoader
>         Changer Command = "/etc/bacula/config/mtx-changer %c %o %S %a %d"
> }
>
> Device {
>         Name = LTO4_1
>         Drive Index = 0
>         Media Type = LTO4
>         Archive Device = /dev/nst0      # Device nstX created
> automatically by st daemon.
>         AutoChanger = yes
>         AutomaticMount = yes;    # when device opened, read it
>         AlwaysOpen = yes;          # Default value yes
>         RemovableMedia = yes;
>         RandomAccess = no;
>         Requires Mount = no;
>         Maximum Open Wait = 300         # Default value
>         Maximum Rewind Wait = 300       # Default value
>         Maximum Changer Wait = 120      # default is 120 secs
>         Maximum Job Spool Size = 2G     # default is unlimited
>         Spool Directory = "/export/shared/spool"
>         Label Type = IBM
>         Check Labels = yes
>         LabelMedia = no;
>         Hardware End of Medium = No     # defaut is Yes
>         Fast Forward Space File = No    # This line required if above
> HEOM is set to "No"
>         BSF at EOM = no                 # Default is no
>         Two EOF = no
>         Volume Poll Interval = 300      # Poll the drive to seek the status
> }
>
> I also changed the LTO4 tape drives' parameters with the "mt" command.
>
> 1. mt -f /dev/st0 stsetoptions
> 2. mt -f /dev/st0 compression
> 3. mt -f /dev/st0 stsetoptions buffer-writes
> 4. mt -f /dev/st0 stsetoptions async-write
> 5. mt -f /dev/st0 stsetoptions fast-eod
> 6. mt -f /dev/st0 stsetoptions two-fms
> 7. tapeinfo -f /dev/sg2
>      Product Type: Tape Drive
>      Vendor ID: 'IBM     '
>      Product ID: 'ULT3580-TD4     '
>      Revision: '77B1'
>      Attached Changer: No
>      SerialNumber: '1310016341'
>      MinBlock:1
>      MaxBlock:16777215
>      SCSI ID: 2
>      SCSI LUN: 0
>      Ready: yes
>      BufferedMode: yes
>      Medium Type: 0x48
>      Density Code: 0x46
>      BlockSize: 0
>      DataCompEnabled: yes
>      DataCompCapable: yes
>      DataDeCompEnabled: yes
>      CompType: 0x1
>      DeCompType: 0x1
>      Block Position: 7920778
>
>
> HTH
>
> Cheers,
> Win
>   


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