2011/6/21 Christian Tardif <christian.tardif AT servinfo DOT ca>:
> Hi,
>
> I have a VXA-2 tape  used with X23 tapes (replacement for V23 tapes)
> that should backup 80GB Uncompressed. Bacula stops after an average of
> 27GB, stating that the media is full.  It seems that tapeinfo thinks
> that it has 80GB available (see below).
>
> How can I fix this in Bacula in order to get the full capacity of my VXA-2?

Hi,

You can use vxaTool to diagnostic purpose for your tape drive. There
is option (from vxaTool readme file):

-t [W/R/F] (optional)
   Test write/read functionality of the device.

   Optional [R]ead-only, [W]rite-only and [F]ull-tape flags
   *** WARNING *** Any data on tape will be overwritten!
   Use a SCRATCH tape when testing the tape drive.

which may be useful in your case (especially -t F params).

In my opinion the vxaTool can respond for query about extremly low
capacity for your tapes.

If all your test by using vxaTool finished well, then you can use
other programs to writing on tapes (for example: tar) and you can
check if other programs causes low capacity behaviour also.

Here is link for vxaTool (there click "Downloads" link from left):

http://tandbergdata.com/us/index.cfm/products/tape-drives/vxa-drives/vxa-2/

Regards.
gani


>
> Christian...
>
> Here's what tapeinfo has to say about the device:
>
> Product Type: Tape Drive
> Vendor ID: 'EXABYTE '
> Product ID: 'VXA-2           '
> Revision: '2153'
> Attached Changer API: No
> SerialNumber: '0085130777'
> MinBlock: 1
> MaxBlock: 245760
> SCSI ID: 0
> SCSI LUN: 0
> Ready: yes
> BufferedMode: yes
> Medium Type: 0x82
> Density Code: 0x81
> BlockSize: 0
> DataCompEnabled: yes
> DataCompCapable: yes
> DataDeCompEnabled: yes
> CompType: 0x3
> DeCompType: 0x3
> BOP: yes
> Block Position: 0
> Partition 0 Remaining Kbytes: 76791808
> Partition 0 Size in Kbytes: 76791808
> ActivePartition: 0
> EarlyWarningSize: 0
> NumPartitions: 0
> MaxPartitions: 1
>
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