Problems with DAT tape....

["Steve Wolfe" <nw@codon.com>]

  A while ago, I took one of the machines here and started using XFS on
it.  The kernel is 2.4.6, with the appropriate xfs patches.  All of the
XFS stuff works marvelously, but now I'm having quite a bit of trouble
trying to make backups to the DAT drive in it.

  After I upgraded the machine, whenever I try and send a tar to the tape
(i.e., "trying tar cf /dev/nst0 BACKUP.LABEL"), I get:

ST0:  Write not multiple of tape block size

    The kernel does have SCSI tape and generic support, and the backup
script hasn't changed.  I could start fiddling with mt trying to change
the blocksize, but something just keeps nagging at me that it should be
working, and there's probably something else that I'm missing.  Anyone
have any ideas?

steve