From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 25 11:28:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA15446 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 25 Sep 1998 11:28:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@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 LAA15412 for ; Fri, 25 Sep 1998 11:28:00 -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 m0zMcau-003BLCC; Fri, 25 Sep 98 13:27 CDT Received: by tellabc.tellabs.com (4.1/1.9) id AA12223; Fri, 25 Sep 98 13:27:51 CDT Message-Id: <9809251827.AA12223@tellabc.tellabs.com> Subject: Exabyte 8500 in low density (2GB) mode... How? To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 13:27:50 -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-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greetings - I've tried reading the st() and mt() man pages, but I'm not finding any "how to" information on this. Does anyone know how to write in low density mode (2GB) on a high density Exabyte 8500 tape drive (5GB mode is default). In Solaris there is a seperate device node for each density (lo, med, hi). However, in FreeBSD I am under the impression that I have to send an IOCTL to the driver with an external command, but what? 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-questions" in the body of the message