Dean A. Hoover wrote:

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

amtapetype -f /dev/nst0

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

First, the man page says to give a decent estimate
capacity with the "-e" switch.  In that case, it
runs about 4-6 hours.  Without that estimate, it could
run for days...

What do you mean with "hang"?  What where the symptoms?
Could you open another terminal?  Did "kill -9" do nothing?
If it really hangs, it's not normal, and, from my experience
this is usually a hardware problem (or a kernel bug, but then
why should you the first one to encounter this?)

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