Re: [Bacula-users] Device is BLOCKED waiting for appendable media.

[Michael K. J. <a12...@da...>]

On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 10:04:41PM +0100, Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
> According to the manual, I should now 'label' the tape. This won't work
> on tux (got the tape changed).

On my DLT tapes, I have to write something to the tape from another
program (I've used tar to write some random file to the tape; I
suspect dding a block from /dev/zero would work just as well) before
bacula will label them.  I vaguely thought I saw something about this
in the manual, but wasn't sure; didn't remember to report it until
you mentioned this.  Oops.