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Subject: Re: Sony DAT
To: freelist@studioweb.com (Greg Holloway)
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> I'm planning to purchase a Sony DAT drive, SDK5000 SCSI, and was wondering
> whether this unit will work OK under FreeBSD ????

	Hmm...you mean the SDT-5000?  I've got one hanging off my
AHA-2842, and it seems to work fine, other than the blocksize on the tape
needs to be set to 512 before it'll stream properly.
(mt -f /dev/nrst0 blocksize 512)


Ken
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