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Date:      Wed, 11 Feb 1998 15:53:33 -0500
From:      sbabkin@dcn.att.com
To:        jfieber@indiana.edu, jbryant@unix.tfs.net
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: Sony SDT-1700 Tape won't write 4Gig
Message-ID:  <C50B6FBA632FD111AF0F0000C0AD71EE413291@dcn71.dcn.att.com>

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> ----------
> > On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Ustimenko Semen wrote:
> > 
> > > I have got Sony SDT-1700 device, but i can't get it work:(
> > > It should write 4 Gig on one 
> > > DDS Cassete. But under 2.2.5-RELEASE write to /dev/rst0 fail
> > > on near 1 Gig.
> > 
> > 4G with compression or without?  Are you using a DDS-1 or DDS-2
> tape? 
> 
> good point!
> 
> Type     Length  Capacity
> --------------------------------------------------------
> DDS    -  60M == 1.3G native
> DDS    -  90M == 2.0G native, 4.0G using compression
> 
I believe that 90M DDS-2 must be 2.0G native (and HP specified it 
in documentation on its DDS-2 drives) while 90M DDS is 1.3G native.
I had opportunity to discover it as failed backup after ICL 
changed by warranty a failed DDS-2 drive to DDS drive.

-SB



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