On Thu, 27 Nov 2008, Willians Vivanco wrote:

> > What are the permissions of /dev/nst* and what userid are the programs
> > running as?
> >
> The normal permissions root:tape

Bacula-sd and btape usually run as bacula:tape - as a test set the
/dev/nst devices world writeable and see if the error persists.

> > What happens if you try to write to the tape using tar and related
> > programs?
>
> It happens the same error...

This indicates a hardware problem.

What about "mt -f /dev/nst0 status" ?

Is your scsi chain terminated properly? What does the library interface
say?

I have a MSL6000 and it works perfectly under linux

AB


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