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Subject: Re: Archive Viper and 3940UW (bad Drive?) 
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>After doing this, I noticed that some of my tapes worked and some didn't.
>After "erasing" all of them they all seem to worked (even on an unmodifed
>kernel).  I was under (I guess false) impression that you didn't have to
>"erase" them.  In the amanda cycle, it just rewinds the tapes and overwrites
>the data on them.  I guess this added a little extra to the filemark or
>something similar that caused it to take to long (and thus timeout) on the
>device close.

You shouldn't have to erase the tapes before using them.

Did up-ing the timeout in st_write_filemarks fix the problem?  Perhaps
60s is better than 10s there too?

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