On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 12:05:56 -0400, Yura Pismerov <ypismerov AT TUCOWS DOT COM>
wrote:

>>From my experience with AIT-2 tapes.
>I did not deal with other types of media, but as for AIT-2 Networker
>refuses (at least in my case) to label brand new tapes. It says
>"exercise tape" or something like that.
>Do I miss something ?

That'll be "Looks like tapeexercise tape" I assume. tapexercise is a Legato
utility that tests tape drives. It writes data to a tape in a particular
format. nsrjb can recognise this, or sometimes data that looks similar, and
this is why this message is displayed. A new tape should NOT give this
message. I have never worked with AIT myself, but if you are seeing this I
suggest you take it up with Legato.

Nevertheless, "Looks like tapeexercise tape" should not prevent nsrjb from
labelling a tape. You should always be able to force it to overwrite the
tape in these circumstances.

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