Peter Guhl wrote:
Hi
On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 10:27, Paul Bijnens wrote:
To prove hardware problems, use a fresh tape, and do a
"amtapetype -e 20g -f /dev/..." (takes about 4-5 hours!) and verify
Hmm, looks like there's no amtapetype around... amanda-server-2.4.3,1
Too old or just not in that particular port?
In that time, it was called "tapetype", and was not installed
in the normal tree, I believe. If you have the source tree around
look in the "tape*" directory.
But you can do just the same using dd:
dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/st0 bs=32k
and count how many 32Kbyte blocks get on the tape.
Expect about 15000000000 / 32768 or about 457763 blocks.
Remember, it takes about 2-3 hours to fill a tape.
Multiple runs should result in an almost constant number of blocks
(plus/minus a few hundred).
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