From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 24 05:50:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id FAA03305 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 24 Nov 1997 05:50:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gatekeeper.acucobol.ie (gatekeeper.acucobol.ie [194.125.135.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id FAA03267 for ; Mon, 24 Nov 1997 05:49:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jmcl@Acucobol.IE) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by gatekeeper.acucobol.ie (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA20218; Mon, 24 Nov 1997 13:50:15 GMT Received: from guinness.acucobol.ie(194.125.135.195) by gatekeeper.acucobol.ie via smap (V2.0beta) id xma020182; Mon, 24 Nov 97 13:49:46 GMT Received: from wrassler.acucobol.ie ([194.125.135.233]) by guinness.acucobol.ie (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA16427; Mon, 24 Nov 1997 13:50:28 GMT Message-Id: <199711241350.NAA16427@guinness.acucobol.ie> Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "John McLaughlin" Organization: Acucobol Ireland Ltd To: Joerg Micheel Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 13:46:35 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: EXABYTE compressed format Reply-to: jmcl@Acucobol.IE CC: questions@freebsd.org Priority: normal In-reply-to: <199711240659.OAA03772@iti.gov.sg> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v2.52) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 24 Nov 97 at 14:59, Joerg Micheel wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to read the 14Gig format from an > > (ahc0:2:0): "EXABYTE EXB-85058SQANXR1 07R0" type 1 removable SCSI 2 > > under 2.2.5-RELEASE and with all the options twiddling it still won't > work. All I get is: > > st0: 245760-byte record too big > > >From the man page I can't tell exactly, whether it's supposed to support > compressed format or not. > > Anyone to help ? I'd have thought that the firmware would recognise a tape written in compressed format. You might try playing around with the density codes (they should be available in you manual, or failing that they can be found somewhere in the compression support section at www.exabyte.com). These can be used with the `mt density' command, and can be used to select compression modes etc. John ----------------------------------------------------- John McLaughlin | Acucobol Ireland Ltd IS Manager, Europe | Burlington House e-Mail: jmcl@acucobol.ie | Waterloo Lane WWW: http://www.acucobol.com| Dublin4, Ireland | Ph: +353 1 6676166 | Fax: +353 1 6676130 -----------------------------------------------------