Re: tape is ejected from drive after 10 mins => no unattended backups

Karsten, Thanks a lot for your reply. This is the output of mt -f /dev/st0 status just after inserting the tape: > drive type = Generic SCSI-2 tape > drive status = 318767616 > sense key error = 0 > residue count = 0 > file number = 0 > block number = 0 > Tape block size 512 bytes. Density code 0

tape is ejected from drive after 10 mins => no unattended backups

Hello, I have a problem witha system installed with Debian 2.2 from scratch. The system has a SCSI DAT Tape drive, that works ok. The only problem is that whenever you insert a tape, if no activity occurs on the tape for 10 minutes, it is ejected automatically. This is a problem as backups cannot