> what platform/OS is your tapehost?

AMD System, running RedHat 9.0.  I'm using a stock 2.4.22 kernel.


> did you also modify your SCSI tape driver config file 
> (/kernel/drv/st.conf
> on Solaris) so the driver can know about particular capabilities of 
> the tapedrive?

I didn't modify any kernel source files.  I'm using 2 modules, st.o for the 
tape drive, and sg.o for the tape changer.


> only with larger tape files, e.g. over ~16Gb in size.  symptom was 
> device timeouts on the tape device, and amanda "thought" these dumps
> were successful!

Really?  How were you able to resolve this problem?  Did you lower chunksize or 
something similar in the amanda.conf file?

-Rob