Date: Sat, 05 Jul 1997 14:15:28 -0600 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@plutotech.com> To: Keith Mitchell <kmitch@weenix.guru.org> Cc: gibbs@plutotech.com (Justin T. Gibbs), scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Archive Viper and 3940UW (bad Drive?) Message-ID: <199707052015.OAA25086@pluto.plutotech.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 04 Jul 1997 12:30:21 EDT." <199707041630.MAA07734@weenix.guru.org>
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>After doing this, I noticed that some of my tapes worked and some didn't. >After "erasing" all of them they all seem to worked (even on an unmodifed >kernel). I was under (I guess false) impression that you didn't have to >"erase" them. In the amanda cycle, it just rewinds the tapes and overwrites >the data on them. I guess this added a little extra to the filemark or >something similar that caused it to take to long (and thus timeout) on the >device close. You shouldn't have to erase the tapes before using them. Did up-ing the timeout in st_write_filemarks fix the problem? Perhaps 60s is better than 10s there too? >-- >Keith Mitchell Head Administrator: acm.vt.edu >Email: kmitch@weenix.guru.org PGP key available upon request >http://weenix.guru.org/~kmitch > Address and URL (c) 1997 Keith Mitchell - All Rights Reserved > Unauthorized use or duplication prohibited > -- Justin T. Gibbs =========================================== FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations ===========================================
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