[Bacula-users] Re: LTO-3 vs. fixed block sizes

2006-01-17 Thread Lance Brown
Lance Brown wrote: > btape from 1.38.4 succeeds with my tape library on a freshly installed > CentOS 4 system. I had to swipe the SCSI card from my current CentOS 3 > backup server in order to test it so I'm not 100% sure it's C4 vs. C3, > or just that a loose connection got corrected. I'll find

[Bacula-users] Re: LTO-3 vs. fixed block sizes

2006-01-17 Thread Lance Brown
Lance Brown wrote: > Lance Brown wrote: > >>I used the terminator that came with the new library, but I don't recall >>switching it out for my old one. I'll give that a try. > > > *grrr* No change in behaviour. Programs still hang on the last read() > system call. > > Time to build a CentOS

[Bacula-users] Re: LTO-3 vs. fixed block sizes

2006-01-17 Thread Lance Brown
Lance Brown wrote: > I used the terminator that came with the new library, but I don't recall > switching it out for my old one. I'll give that a try. *grrr* No change in behaviour. Programs still hang on the last read() system call. Time to build a CentOS 4 box and see if that changes anythin

[Bacula-users] Re: LTO-3 vs. fixed block sizes

2006-01-17 Thread Lance Brown
Alan Brown wrote: > As a really dumb (but non-obvious) question, have you tried swapping out > the terminator? I used the terminator that came with the new library, but I don't recall switching it out for my old one. I'll give that a try. --[Lance] -- Lance A. Brown Senior Systems Programmer I

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: LTO-3 vs. fixed block sizes

2006-01-17 Thread Phil Stracchino
Alan Brown wrote: > As a really dumb (but non-obvious) question, have you tried swapping out > the terminator? Seconded. I had initial erratic problems with my LTO1 that turned out to be bad termination. -- Phil Stracchino [EMAIL PROTECTED] Renaissance Man, Unix generalist, Perl hac

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: LTO-3 vs. fixed block sizes

2006-01-17 Thread Alan Brown
On Mon, 16 Jan 2006, Lance Brown wrote: *nod* I've received reports from two other folks running bacula on Ultrium-TD3 drives with no issues. I don't think it's bacula-version related because both dd and tar also suffer the same blocking problem on the last read() system call. I've swapped o

[Bacula-users] Re: LTO-3 vs. fixed block sizes

2006-01-16 Thread Lance Brown
Rudolf Cejka wrote: > Hello, maybe you can try different version of Linux, newer Bacula 1.38.x > or/and cabling. I have Overland Neo 4200 with LTO-3 and FreeBSD 6.0 > and did not experience any problem like yours - and I think there are > others with LTO-3 without problems independently on FreeBSD