John Drescher wrote:
>> I use a SONY AIT drive with a media that can hold 40GB (uncompressed).
> 
> I assume you are talking about AIT1.

Correct, AIT1 on SATA port.

> 
>> 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.
>

dmesg reports this:

st0: MTSETDRVBUFFER only allowed for root

Might this be the root of all evil? Bacula shows no append errors. I 
suppose by 'btape tests' you mean the tests in bacula manual chapter 37, 
'Testing Your Tape Drive With Bacula'; yes, I did run these tests. 
Probably I should rerun them and note the results?

Felix

> John

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