On Monday 02 September 2002 02:24, Brian Jonnes wrote: >On Sun 01 Sep 02 20:51, Gene Heskett wrote: >> Thats just a wee bit more than my tapetype says it is here, I >> got 3780mb as the capacity. > >Odd.
No, not really. It just demonstrates that the marketing weenies tend to round things off to the next higher gigabyte in their propaganda releases. I'd use whatever 'tapetype' spits out for your drive and tape. >> What version of amanda? There was a period of a couple of weeks >> where the internal rewind function was a bit foobar. The tape >> might not have been rewound, but then again, thats wrong cause >> it had to rewind it to verify it was the right tape, which it >> apparently did. Anyway, the current snapshot is >> 2.4.3b4-20020829 and all *known* bugs have been squished. > >Hrm. Running Debian Woody's version (2.4.2p2). Quite a bit has been fixed in 2.4.3b4. Use the same configuration as for 2.4.2p2 and it should drop right in on top of the old install, I do that here as soon as the next one is out. That might indeed fix this problem. Its clean code, even builds with gcc-3.2 :-) [...] >It be an IDE drive. Humm, that I've no experience with at all, but I'd assume you have to use the 'ide-scsi' interface in order to talk to it since the ide interface was never intended to be used for sequential block devices. Atapi extends this. I use ide-scsi here, but to talk to my cdrom/cdrw drive. >> I've been getting mine on ebay, and allthough the price has >> risen somewhat, you should be able to get a couple of 10 packs >> for $35-$40 a 10-pack. Plus the inevitable shipping of course. > >Dunno if the shipping is gonna kill it for me, being in SA ;) Ah, yeah there is that. But still, even if it was another 40 USD to get it there, thats still cheaper by quite a bit than TR-4's are in this neck of the woods. However I've heard some stories about merchandise being held for ransom by the local agents too in some areas of your hemisphere. Is that a problem in your area? -- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 99.13% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly