Problem with SLR SCSI tape

Matthew Jacob lydianconcepts at gmail.com
Sat Jul 1 01:07:13 UTC 2006


Hah. Thought it might.

Tandberg: Repeat after me 1 million times; QIC is QIC is QIC is QIC.
It can only do one filemark at a time- you can't make a second
filemark as a recorded entity.

On 6/28/06, Olivier Nicole <on at cs.ait.ac.th> wrote:
> > What's the eot model for the SLR? The SLR is wierd in that it tries to
> > no be a QIC tape, but it is. Can you write to a tape *not* with
> > amanda? As in
> >
> > mt -f /dev/nsa0 seteotmodel 1
> > mt -f /dev/nsa0 weof
>
> The model of eot was 2 filemarks. Changing to 1 seems to have solved
> Amanda issue.
>
> Erase error was because I did not rewind the tape first.
>
> DD issue seems to be something else.
>
> But with 1 filemark I get everything working.
>
> Thanks.
>
>


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