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Re: [Networker] wrong tape capacitiy displayed

2005-02-22 09:38:58
Subject: Re: [Networker] wrong tape capacitiy displayed
From: Stan Horwitz <stan AT TEMPLE DOT EDU>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 09:32:07 -0500
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, ingo AT visionet DOT de wrote:
>
>Notice that there are four different capacities displayed!
>
>I tried setting NSR_DEV_DEFAULT_CAPACITY_8MM_MAMMOTH_2=60GB on both server
>and storage node and restarting networker. I am getting a message on
>startup that this setting is ok, but when labeling a tape, the displayed
>capacity is again randomly wrong.
>
>I tried erasing a tape via Exabyte's MammothTool so that any existing tape
>label would be deleted and then again labeling the tape. No effect.

Did you also remove the tape  you erased from NetWorker's media database?
If so, try erasing one of those tapes after removing it from the media db,
then use "nsrjb -L" to manually label the tape. This should compel
NetWorker to use the desired block size.

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