Hi, Dean,

on Sonntag, 29. Februar 2004 at 21:18 you wrote to amanda-users:

DAH> I have a seagate STT2000N tape drive and
DAH> want to configure amanda to use it. I just
DAH> ran:

DAH> amtapetype -f /dev/nst0

DAH> and it ran for a long time and then proceeded
DAH> to hang my system (RH9). Am I doing this right?

Yeah, apart from hanging the OS this is right.

Read "man amtapetype" for more infos, look at the option "-e"
especially. You can provide the estimated size of a tape to the
program via this option.

A VERY important thing to check is to have the hardware compression
DISABLED.

-- 
best regards,
Stefan

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