Product

Platform

Operating system

Error

Symptoms

When looking at the dbcs_archivemedium table and found there are multiple values for the blocksize column.

Cause

Solution

For MTF tapes the archiver uses the default blocksize supplied by the tape device driver.

For AIT it is 32KB.

For DLT 7000, 8000 it is 64KB.

For LTO it is 32KB.

For DDS it is 16KB (we don't really support DDS - 4mm DAT, but one can add it via some undocumented registry entries).

A blocksize of 0KB should mean we allocated the tape but didn't write anything on it (yet). Since the code that allocates the tape doesn't know the tape format the archiver is going to use, it cannot set the blocksize.

Permanent fix:

See also

Keywords

archiver FAQs

Technical contact(s)

Amy Chan

Submitted by

Amy Chan

Date submitted

April 28, 2003