> I use a SONY AIT drive with a media that can hold 40GB (uncompressed).

I assume you are talking about AIT1.

> After writing about 12GB of data bacula reports 'volume status full' and
> therefore will not append any more data.
>
> Is this some kind of misconfiguration (I didn't tell bacula the media
> size)

In general you do not want to configure block sizes.

>or is it a problem with the hardware?
>
Check for scsi errors. In your dmesg output. Or append errors in your
bacula messages. Have you tried the btape tests.

John

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