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Date:      Thu, 20 Dec 2001 19:31:32 +0100 (MET)
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
To:        freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org
Cc:        Henry Whincup <henry@techiebod.com>
Subject:   Re: SCSI tape drive problems
Message-ID:  <200112201831.fBKIVWW46146@uriah.heep.sax.de>
References:  <20011220122232.H11193-200000@gw1.techiebod.com>

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Henry Whincup <henry@techiebod.com> wrote:

> mt status responds with :
> Mode      Density              Blocksize      bpi      Compression
> Current:  0x13:X3B5/88-185A    512 bytes      61000    DCLZ

Try using "mt blocksize 0".  I wouldn't expect 512-byte fixed-length
recording to be much useful on a DDS drive (although it /should/ work,
of course).

-- 
cheers, J"org               .-.-.   --... ...--   -.. .  DL8DTL

http://www.sax.de/~joerg/                        NIC: JW11-RIPE
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