Quoting Galen Johnson (gjohnson AT trantor DOT org):
> The filemark is just a way for tape systems to waste tape...be glad that 
> it's zero...the real question is what is the advertised capacity of 
> these tapes?  

7G uncompressed. The tape drive I have is listed below:

http://www.cpuinc.com/8700.html

> Did you turn off hardware compression?  What is the error 
> given in the logs?

$ mt -f /dev/nst0 status
SCSI 2 tape drive:
File number=0, block number=0, partition=0.
Tape block size 1024 bytes. Density code 0x0 (default).
Soft error count since last status=0
General status bits on (41010000):
 BOT ONLINE IM_REP_EN

$ mt -f /dev/nst0 densities
Some SCSI tape density codes:
code   explanation                   
0x00   default                      
<snip>

I could not find what the "default" setting of the tape drive is. Nor could I
find a way or option in the densities to force uncompressed (if the default is
compressed).

Several errors:

Sep 30 20:38:27 linux kernel: st0: Error with sense data: Info fld=0x3c0, Defer
red st09:00: sense key Medium Error

Sep 28 15:27:22 linux xinetd[12977]: START: amanda pid=13189 from=127.0.0.1

Sep 28 15:27:22 linux xinetd[13189]: {general_handler} (13189) Unexpected
signal: 11 (Segmentation fault)


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