On Saturday 25 January 2003 10:24, John R. Jackson wrote:
>>chg-multi?
>>I thought that was generally used for "multi"ple drives.
>>Not for multiple tapes in a changer.
>
>That's correct.  Anne, you don't want to use chg-multi if you have
> a "real" changer, i.e. one that has mechanics to advance from
> tape to tape.  chg-multi is intended for sites that have several
> tape *drives* and want to emulate a changer by having Amanda move
> from drive to drive.
>
>As others have said, chg-zd-mtx or chg-scsi are probably what you
> want.
>
>>But I've been wrong before :((
>
>I wasn't going to bring that up (just kidding :-).
>
>>Jon H. LaBadie                  jon AT jgcomp DOT com
>
>John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, jrj AT purdue DOT edu

John, could you refresh us on how tapetype goes about determining 
the size of a drives filemark?

Maybe I'm being paranoid, but I ask because it seems to be so large 
(5.5 megs) on a freshly tapetype derived tapetype posted here 
recently. 100 gig drive, but still...

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