On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 11:17 AM, Alan Hodgson <ahodg...@lists.simkin.ca> wrote:
> 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. > > Ouch! This drive is only a couple of months old... I'll give this a try if switching the device type does not work. Kind regards, Chris