On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 07:10:39PM +0200, Arnd wrote:
> 
> Paul Bijnens wrote:
> >Normal scsi voodoo:  is the cable terminated?  Did you sacrifice
> >a chicken? ...
> >
> >Can you read/write to the tape when not using amanda tools, e.g.
> >simple:   dd if=somefile bs=32k of=/dev/st0
> 
> I must say that my first thought really was the chicken ;-).
> 
> Well, it was your second tip... While choosing the bloksize of 32k for 
> "dd" I was running into I/O errors on the tape drive so the next step is 
> to check the blocksize of that tapedrive:
> 
> $ mt -f /dev/st0 status
> SCSI 2 tape drive:
> File number=0, block number=1, partition=0.
> Tape block size 65536 bytes. Density code 0x42 (no translation).
> Soft error count since last status=0
> General status bits on (1010000):
>  ONLINE IM_REP_EN
> 
> While I couldn't find the option to specify the blocksize in the 
> tapetype I simply changed the blocksize of that tapedrive:
> 

Its called blocksize :)


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