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Date:      Sat, 21 Feb 1998 09:11:11 -0800 (PST)
From:      Chris Timmons <cwt@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        hausen@punkt.de, cwt@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: kern/5735
Message-ID:  <199802211711.JAA14527@freefall.freebsd.org>

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Synopsis: Can't write to SCSI tape after "mt fsf" command

State-Changed-From-To: open-closed
State-Changed-By: cwt
State-Changed-When: Sat Feb 21 09:01:50 PST 1998
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Patrick reports that Tandberg tech support replied to him:
"From your info it seems that your customer writes 4 sessions,
 rewinds and reads 3 sessions and then tries to write over the last session.
 This is not allowed.  A tape can only be written from beginning of tape
 or from end of data (append."

The problem was solved by changes made to the amanda tape backup utility
which will appear in the upcoming 2.4.0 release:

"Alexandre Oliva incoporated a change into Amanda. The software now
 consistently opens the device RO or RW until it's completely rewound
 and opened anew."

Thanks, Patrick for researching this through to resolution and keeping
us informed!

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