I'm using chg-multi with two identical Exabyte drives.  The capacity
of each tape is slightly less than 5 Gb.  I have a DLE that, at level
0, creates a dump of 22 Gb.

I haven't found any way to flush the dump from the holding disk onto
tape.  I have specified for the dumptype:

     tape_splitsize 500 Mb 

and I have specified for the holdingdisk:

     chunksize 500 Mb 

So I run amflush.  Hours later, amflush reports:

*** THE DUMPS DID NOT FINISH PROPERLY!
The dumps were flushed to tapes CH0008, CH0009.
*** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [No more writable valid tape found].

Nothing has been deleted from the holding disk.  If I run
amflush again, hours later I get the same report again.

What am I doing wrong?  Or does tape spanning actually *not* work
unless the dump is smaller than the total capacity of the changer?
(If that's the case, it might be a good idea to say so on the tape
spanning page in the wiki.)

-- Steve

Steven R. Newcomb, Consultant
Coolheads Consulting

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