On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 01:51:28PM -0500, John R. Jackson wrote: > All sorts of things might have happened to cause the amount of data > written to vary enough to generate this file mark size guess. A little > more "shoe shining" because of the additional file marks (and flushes), > dirt left on the heads from the first pass of a brand new tape, the > temperature/humidity changed during the multi-hour run, a different amount > of data was written after the last file mark before EOT was reported, etc.
Why amtapetype doesn't count these last blocks (from the last files). I know there is some buffer (kernel, drive), but the error will be the same for both pass. Jean-Louis -- Jean-Louis Martineau email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Departement IRO, Universite de Montreal C.P. 6128, Succ. CENTRE-VILLE Tel: (514) 343-6111 ext. 3529 Montreal, Canada, H3C 3J7 Fax: (514) 343-5834
