>>>>> On Thu, 01 Feb 2007 12:33:07 +0100, Jose Molina said: > > So, for those having these kind of problems, this configuration works > fine on a HP Ultrium LTO2 Drive on FreeBSD 6.1: > > As suggested in this list: make sure your tape is set to eot model=1 and > all the usual stuff, usually with these commands: > > mt -f /dev/nsa0 seteotmodel 1 > mt -f /dev/nsa0 blocksize 0 > mt -f /dev/nsa0 comp enable > > Then you can leave all the rest like usual and only need Hardware End of > Medium = no, like this: > > Device { > Name = Drive-1 > Drive Index = 0 > Media Type = LTO2 > Archive Device = /dev/nsa0 > AutomaticMount = yes; > AlwaysOpen = yes; > RemovableMedia = yes; > RandomAccess = no; > AutoChanger = yes > > Offline On Unmount = no > Hardware End of Medium = no > } > > This is also indicated in the documentation as a side note for FreeBSD > 4.10-RELEASE, using a Sony TSL11000 L100 DDS4. > > If you feel that the documentation should have some "modern" tape > configuration examples, it would be nice if people on the list posted > some tested and working configuration on LTO-2 and LTO-3 drives, to be > able to update it.
Those settings work great for me with an HP Ultrium LTO1 drive on FreeBSD 4.9. However, a Sony DDS4 drive needed 2 eofs to work reliably. __Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users