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List:       bacula-users
Subject:    Re: [Bacula-users] what does btape actually do?
From:       Randy Schultz <schulra () earlham ! edu>
Date:       2014-03-27 19:22:35
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On Wed, 26 Mar 2014, Rados=B3aw Korzeniewski spaketh thusly:

-}
-}Are you sure that tape library drive index 0 is system device /dev/nsa0=
?
-}What mt -f /dev/nsa0 status show to you?

mt -f /dev/nsa0 status
Mode      Density              Blocksize      bpi      Compression
Current:  0x58                 variable       0        0x1
---------available modes---------
0:        0x58                 variable       0        0x1
1:        0x58                 variable       0        0x1
2:        0x58                 variable       0        0x1
3:        0x58                 variable       0        0x1
---------------------------------
Current Driver State: at rest.
---------------------------------
File Number: 0  Record Number: 0        Residual Count 0


mt -f /dev/nsa1 status
Mode      Density              Blocksize      bpi      Compression
Current:  0x58                 variable       0        0x1
---------available modes---------
0:        0x58                 variable       0        0x1
1:        0x58                 variable       0        0x1
2:        0x58                 variable       0        0x1
3:        0x58                 variable       0        0x1
---------------------------------
Current Driver State: at rest.
---------------------------------
File Number: 0  Record Number: 0        Residual Count 0



-}I bet that /dev/nsa1 is a drive index 0 and /dev/nsa0 is a drive index =
1.

Aahh, I had not thought of that scenario.  Tnx much.

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