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Re: [Bacula-users] Cannot append to LTO-4 tape

2011-10-31 12:43:10
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Cannot append to LTO-4 tape
From: Martin Simmons <martin AT lispworks DOT com>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 16:40:20 GMT
>>>>> On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 15:05:20 +0200, Andrea Venturoli said:
> 
> On 10/27/11 12:31, Martin Simmons wrote:
> 
> > Does the setting of "TWO EOF" in the bacula-sd.conf match what is reported 
> > by
> > the drive after you reboot?  E.g.
> >
> > mt -f /dev/sa0.ctl geteotmodel
> 
> Yes.
> 
> I have:
> 
> > Device {
> >   Name = LTO-4
> >   Description = "LTO-4 for FreeBSD"
> >   Media Type = LTO-4
> >   Archive Device = /dev/nsa0
> >   AutomaticMount = yes;               # when device opened, read it
> >   AlwaysOpen = yes
> >   RemovableMedia=yes
> >   Offline On Unmount = no
> >   Hardware End of Medium = no
> >   BSF at EOM = yes
> >   Backward Space Record = yes
> >   Backward Space File = yes;
> >   Fast Forward Space File = yes
> >   TWO EOF = yes
> >   Maximum File Size=2GB
> > }
> 
> And:
> 
> > # mt geteotmodel
> > /dev/nsa0: the model is 2 filemarks at EOT

Hmm, OK.

Did btest only work when you used two eof mode?  I find that single eof mode
works fine with an LTO-1 drive on FreeBSD 8 (but it has to be changed on boot
using mt -f /dev/sa0.ctl seteotmodel 1.

__Martin

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