On Sun 01 Sep 02 20:51, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Thats just a wee bit more than my tapetype says it is here, I got
> 3780mb as the capacity.

Odd.

> What version of amanda?  There was a period of a couple of weeks
> where the internal rewind function was a bit foobar.  The tape
> might not have been rewound, but then again, thats wrong cause it
> had to rewind it to verify it was the right tape, which it
> apparently did.  Anyway, the current snapshot is 2.4.3b4-20020829
> and all *known* bugs have been squished.

Hrm. Running Debian Woody's version (2.4.2p2). 

> Also, what scsi card? Adaptec 1542's are getting a bad rep in this
> group.  They do not do tape happily.

It be an IDE drive.

> I've been getting mine on ebay, and allthough the price has risen
> somewhat, you should be able to get a couple of 10 packs for
> $35-$40 a 10-pack.  Plus the inevitable shipping of course.

Dunno if the shipping is gonna kill it for me, being in SA ;)

Regards,

Brian Jonnes
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