On Friday, April 15, 2016 09:31:26 AM you wrote: > I'm trying to figure out how a LTO4 tape was filled up by 32k of data.... > or am I missing something here? >
Any time I've started getting premature end-of-tape it has been because the drive is malfunctioning. Try a few times with just dd on a new tape and see how much it can write before it gets EOT.