Bug 111279

Summary: unable to set tape block size above 99 bytes
Product: [Unmaintained] kdat Reporter: myjunketc
Component: generalAssignee: Larry Widman <kdat>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version: 2.0.1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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Description myjunketc 2005-08-22 16:18:17 UTC 
Version:           2.0.1 (using KDE 3.4.1 Level "a" , SUSE 9.3 UNSUPPORTED)
Compiler:          gcc version 3.3.5 20050117 (prerelease) (SUSE Linux)
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.11.4-21.7-default

Unable to set tape block size above 99bytes. 

Using tapes formatted with this version, even with "variable tape size" checked in settings, backups that used to take a few hours take 24-48 hours (or more) to complete. 

Tapes formatted with kdat with the earlier version (at 512 block size) which contain successful backups are not recognized in the current version. They cannot be mounted - error message: "reading magic string failed"

In a prior version of kdat I was able to set the tape byte size to 512 and successfully used it to backup and restore.

I am using a SCSI Seagate STD68000N with 4mm DAT tapes.
Comment 1 Jan Leonhardt 2005-08-24 22:47:49 UTC 
This is a duplicate of:
Bug 95625: cant enter blocksize >99 byte for VXAtape Opened:	2004-12-22 12:10
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95625
Comment 2 Chris Howells 2006-05-22 08:09:42 UTC 
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 95625 ***