[720] in Info-AFS_Redistribution
Tape size in tape label used by butc (was: tapeconfig-values for a Sun-Exabyte combination?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hakan Torbjar)
Mon Apr 13 11:20:52 1992
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 92 13:52:14 GMT
From: Hakan Torbjar <torbjar@ce.chalmers.se>
To: info-afs@transarc.com
I wrote about butc running off the end of the tape even when the tape
size was specified in tapeconfig to be much shorter than the real tape.
This was caused by butc ignoring the size in the tapeconfig file and
using only the size in the tape label. Thus, after having
specified the wrong tape length (in my case 1.8 TB rather than GB) and
the tape has been labeled this way (automatically when used for the
first time), this is the size butc uses regardless of the size in
tapeconfig (I wish it had warned me about the difference [hint]).
I hope this info may save some time for the next guy!
-- H}kan
