On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 5:33 PM, John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com> 
wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Jeremiah D. Jester
> <jjest AT u.washington DOT edu> wrote:
>> Here's my output..
>>
>> #test write.
>> [root@scrappy bacula]# mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind
>> [root@scrappy bacula]# mt -f /dev/nst0 weof
>> [root@scrappy bacula]# dd if=/dev/nst0 of=/dev/null bs=64512
>> dd: reading `/dev/nst0': Input/output error
>> 0+0 records in
>> 0+0 records out
>> 0 bytes (0 B) copied, 5.39927 seconds, 0.0 kB/s
>>
>> #/var/log/messages
>> Feb 28 14:17:46 scrappy kernel: st0: Failed to read 65532 byte block with 
>> 64512 byte transfer.
>>
> You will have to increase the block size since your tape was written
> with a larger block size.
>
Also this is the expected output since you did not write anything to
the tape after the weof. This was actually trying to read the tape not
write.

John

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