Gene Heskett wrote:

Silly Q? Could this be the reason I've blamed amanda for not being able to rewind the tape in a Seagate 4586N changer? And while amanda couldn't rewind it, mt could?

I don't think so.  The file contains parameters to set blocksize
and hw-compression if different modes.  But rewind is (AFAIK) a generic
scsi-tape command.  Anyway, amanda does not read that file; adding
it would not a difference for amanda.

"man stinit" gives some idea what can be configured in the file.

Humm, on inspecting that file, I find its quite jurassic, offering no clues for anything newer than whats obviously decade+ old DDS1 drives. And no mention of rewind capabilities for any drive IIRC.

So I doubt its connected with my non-rewinding chg-scsi script useage.

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