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From: Brian Hechinger <wonko@users.tmok.com>
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Subject: Re: DLT tape drive
In-Reply-To: <20000428172207.A12305@dan.emsphone.com> from Dan Nelson at "Apr 28, 2000  5:22: 7 pm"
To: dnelson@emsphone.com (Dan Nelson)
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Dan Nelson drunkenly mumbled...
> In the last episode (Apr 28), Brian Hechinger said:
> > sa0 at ahc1 bus 0 target 5 lun 0
> > sa0: <Quantum DLT4000 D473> Removable Sequential Access SCSI-2 device 
> > sa0: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 15)
> 
> It'll say "device not configured" if there is no tape in the drive.  If
> you want to get status even the the drive is empty, try the
> /dev/rsa0.ctl device.

i was wondering what that was.  wish i had tried it! (tried all the rest)

so, that aside, rsa0 is rewinding, nrsa0 is non-rewinding.  how do i turn
compression on and off (last machine i had a tape drive on was a Solaris 
machine, and they use device name to control hardware compression)

thanks!

-brian

ps: thanks to Darryl Hoar for the help with outlook.  that's exactly what i was
looking for.  detailed instructions for the Windows impaired.


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