Hi, Mike,

on Donnerstag, 12. Februar 2004 at 11:21 you wrote to amanda-users:

MB> So I'm wondering why I can't get ~32Gb of data onto a 35Gb tape. I'm a
MB> bit suspicious that the tapetype may be causing problems - 8 KB filemark
MB> seems very low. I can't actually remember where the tapetype definition
MB> originated....

Seems like it is one of those in the AMANDA-FAQ-O-MATIC.

MB> I could run tapetype on the drive, but that's likely to take some time,
MB> and I was hoping someone might be able to give me a quick fix...

Look up http://amanda.sourceforge.net/fom-serve/cache/100.html.
You will find that amtapetype generated somewhat smaller values for
the length.

Before running amtapetype you could just go and try to set length to
32,33,34 GB and see if you still hit EOT.

The values given for the capacities of tapes are often theoretical
ones.

-- 
best regards,
Stefan

Stefan G. Weichinger
mailto:monitor AT oops.co DOT at