Davina Treiber wrote:
>
> Yura Pismerov wrote:
>
> > Are the tapes new ? Brand new or never used with Legato tapes should be
> > erased - see /etc/LGTOuscsi/erase (man erase). Otherwise Legato won't
> > accept them (deliberately).
>
> This is wrong. NetWorker doesn't have problems labelling new or
> non-NetWorker tapes. I don't know where you got this idea from. Good
> thing it's not true, imagine having to manually run erase on hundreds of
> tapes before use!

>From my experience with AIT-2 tapes.
I did not deal with other types of media, but as for AIT-2 Networker
refuses (at least in my case) to label brand new tapes. It says
"exercise tape" or something like that.
Do I miss something ?


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