From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 29 11:15:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA09530 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 11:15:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tellab5.tellabs.com (tellab5.tellabs.com [138.111.243.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA09437 for ; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 11:14:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mikebo@tellabs.com) From: mikebo@tellabs.com Received: from tellabc.tellabs.com by tellab5.tellabs.com with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #4) id m0zO4Hn-003BMeC; Tue, 29 Sep 98 13:14 CDT Received: by tellabc.tellabs.com (4.1/1.9) id AA19654; Tue, 29 Sep 98 13:14:06 CDT Message-Id: <9809291814.AA19654@tellabc.tellabs.com> Subject: Exabyte 8500 in low density (2GB) mode... How? To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 13:14:06 -0500 (CDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greetings - Does anyone know how to write to an Exabyte 8500 in low density mode (2GB format)? The Exabyte 8500 tape drive default is 5GB format, which cannot be read by the old Exabyte 8200 2GB drive. In Solaris there is a seperate device node for each density (lo, med, hi). However, in FreeBSD, I believe one has to send an IOCTL to the driver via an external command - but what is it? I've tried reading the st() and mt() man pages, and posting to the "questions" list, but I can't find any "how to" information on this. Any help would be appreciated. Regards, - Mike -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Borowiec -- mikebo@tellabs.com -- Tellabs Operations, Inc. Systems Analyst, Corporate Software Tools 4951 Indiana Ave., MS 63 630-512-8019 FAX: 630-512-7099 Lisle, IL 60532 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message