From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 29 16:16:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA03791 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 16:16:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from narnia.plutotech.com (narnia.plutotech.com [206.168.67.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA03782 for ; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 16:16:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gibbs@narnia.plutotech.com) Received: (from gibbs@localhost) by narnia.plutotech.com (8.9.1/8.7.3) id RAA21910; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 17:09:48 -0600 (MDT) Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 17:09:48 -0600 (MDT) From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Message-Id: <199809292309.RAA21910@narnia.plutotech.com> To: mikebo@tellabs.com cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Exabyte 8500 in low density (2GB) mode... How? Newsgroups: pluto.freebsd.hackers In-Reply-To: <9809292054.AA25720@tellabc.tellabs.com> User-Agent: tin/pre-1.4-971204 (UNIX) (FreeBSD/3.0-BETA (i386)) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <9809292054.AA25720@tellabc.tellabs.com> you wrote: > Karl - > Yes, the 8500 can write in 8200 format - I do it all the time on Suns. > I just don't know how to do it on FreeBSD, or if it is even possible. If you know the density used by the 8200, you can tell the drive to use that density using "mt density". -- Justin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message