> > Hi,
> >
> > here's a new view on my latest tape drive problem.
> > It I use the amanda tool amtapetype -f /dev/nst0 on my system, after a
> > while I can't start any new processes. I got some errors like "cannot
> > fork" "out of memory" or I totally hangs.
> >
> > Increasing the limits of datasize, stacksize or openfiles solves the
> > problem just for a few minutes.
> 
> you should use nrst0 - raw tape drive
> 
> anyway - i don't know what's tape block device for these days.
> 
Well, it was not so many years ago I used a tape as mounted filesystem :-)

-- Ragge