Re: [Bacula-users] btape vs. dd: Strange behavior on LTO-5

2013-09-10 Thread Brian Debelius
Hi Andreas, I have exactly the same problem with LTO-4 drives. I don't have an answer, just a me too. I've ignored this for a long time just because it worked with 128K blocks. I am currently rebuilding a server based on CentOS 6.4, 2.6.32-358.18.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Aug 28 17:19:38 UTC 2

[Bacula-users] btape vs. dd: Strange behavior on LTO-5

2013-08-21 Thread Andreas Koch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I am stumped by the behavior of an HP LTO-5 drive running on Scientific Linux 6.4 (Kernel 2.6.32-358.14.1.el6.x86_64) and Bacula 5.2.12. Specifically, using dd, I can read and write block sizes of 2 MB, but btape cannot reliably handle anythin