Another quick question: hitting end-of-tape error does not mean that
the tape length setting in tapetype is wrong?

I have:

define tapetype HP-DAT-72x6 {
    comment "HP autoloader DAT 72x6"
    # data provided by Rodrigo Ventura <yoda AT isr.ist.utl DOT pt>
    length 31255 mbytes
    filemark 527 kbytes
    speed 1580 kps
}

(got it from running an amanda utility to detect it by writting
garbage to tape)

Cheers,

Rodrigo

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