From owner-freebsd-scsi Thu Dec 20 10:50:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78E1F37B435 for ; Thu, 20 Dec 2001 10:50:15 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with UUCP id TAA02124; Thu, 20 Dec 2001 19:50:14 +0100 (CET) Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fBKIVWW46146; Thu, 20 Dec 2001 19:31:32 +0100 (MET) (envelope-from j) Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 19:31:32 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <200112201831.fBKIVWW46146@uriah.heep.sax.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: knews 1.0b.1 Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E References: <20011220122232.H11193-200000@gw1.techiebod.com> From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Subject: Re: SCSI tape drive problems X-Original-Newsgroups: local.freebsd.scsi To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Cc: Henry Whincup Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Henry Whincup 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 Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message