>My workaround is "amlabel -f taeglich taeglich7" every time I insert
>tape taeglich7. ...
Ick.
>The tape is forced to SCSII 2 and no hardware compression. What are
>the differences between SCSII 2 and 3 with regard to tapes? Anything
>applicable in my case?
I don't know, but this has got to b
"John R. Jackson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >It's worse. With blocksize 0 I get the data and the error, with bs=32k
> >I get just the error and 0 blocks read. This applies to ibs/obs=32k
> >and bs=32k. ...
>
> There are several moving parts here that I want to make sure we all are
> in sync
>It's worse. With blocksize 0 I get the data and the error, with bs=32k
>I get just the error and 0 blocks read. This applies to ibs/obs=32k
>and bs=32k. ...
There are several moving parts here that I want to make sure we all are
in sync on.
Some hardware has a blocking size. If you set it to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Karakas) writes:
[...]
>
> dd if=/dev/nst0 of=/tmp/dattest ibs=32k obs=32k
> ^^^
> (some implementations of dd may need an explicit setting of input and
> output block sizes, so don't just use bs=32k for the moment).
It's wor
Johannes Niess wrote:
>
> server:~ # rm /tmp/dattest;mtst -f /dev/nst0 rewind;mtst -f /dev/nst0
> status; echo;dd if=/dev/nst0 of=/tmp/dattest;echo;cat /tmp/dattest
Try specifying the block size in the dd command:
dd if=/dev/nst0 of=/tmp/dattest ibs=32k obs=32k
^
Hi,
I'm having trouble with my Seagate Scorpion 40 (DDS4). It does not
read software labels. I've emulated Amanda like this:
server:~ # rm /tmp/dattest;mtst -f /dev/nst0 rewind;mtst -f /dev/nst0
status; echo;dd if=/dev/nst0 of=/tmp/dattest;echo;cat /tmp/dattest
SCSI 2 tape drive: File number=0,
