Hi Chris, I tried this, and afterwards it no longer reads any tapes at all. Tried powering off the server, turning on again - no luck. Have placed a service call to get the drive replaced, so will let you know what happens.
Cheers, Chris |-----Original Message----- |From: Christoph Scheeder [mailto:christoph.scheeder@;scheeder.de] |Sent: Tuesday, 3 September 2002 17:10 |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Cc: amanda Mailingliste |Subject: Re: problems with tape drive? | | |Hi, |your problem is the fixed hardware-blocksize of the SDT-10000, |i had the same problem with my SDT-9000 and solve it by switching |it to variable blocksize using | |mt setblk 0 | |after each reset as the tapedevice switches back to the fixed default |block-size after every reset. |Christoph | |