From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jul 4 18:16:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA03856 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sat, 4 Jul 1998 18:16:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [139.130.136.133] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA03839; Sat, 4 Jul 1998 18:16:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) id KAA17365; Sun, 5 Jul 1998 10:46:48 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980705104647.O358@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sun, 5 Jul 1998 10:46:47 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Willem Jan Withagen , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Apollo tapes (was: Variant Link implementation, continued) References: <199807030025.TAA18925@nospam.hiwaay.net> <199807041328.PAA26905@surf.IAE.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199807041328.PAA26905@surf.IAE.nl>; from Willem Jan Withagen on Sat, Jul 04, 1998 at 03:28:37PM +0200 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday, 4 July 1998 at 15:28:37 +0200, Willem Jan Withagen wrote: > In article <199807030025.TAA18925@nospam.hiwaay.net> you write: >> In the early bad old days of DAT (more correctly known as DSS) there >> were more problems than there should have been with one tape drive not >> being able to read tapes from another, all other things the same. > > Oke, My drive is again on line: > > [~] wjw@digi> mt stat > Present Mode: Density = X3B5/88-185A Blocksize variable > ---------available modes--------- > Mode 0: Density = 0x00 Blocksize variable > Mode 1: Density = X3.136-1986 Blocksize = 512 bytes > Mode 2: Density = X3.39-1986 Blocksize variable > Mode 3: Density = X3.54-1986 Blocksize variable > > looking at: man mt: > The different density codes are as follows: > > 0x0 default for device > 0xE reserved for ECMA > > Value Tracks Density(bpi) Code Type Reference Note > ........ > 0x13 1 61000 DDS CS X3B5/88-185A 4 > 0x14 1 43245 RLL CS X3.202-1991 4 > 0x15 1 45434 RLL CS ECMA TC17 4 > > Which are 3 DAT formats. And thus it is a DDS-coded tape. This describes the tape unit, not the tape. We've already established that it can't read the tape. > Anybody with more suggestions?? (other than finding the "old" tapedrive) Give up? Or send them to Mike? Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message