From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 11 12:52:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA17516 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 11 Feb 1998 12:52:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from att.com (kcgw1.att.com [192.128.133.151]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA17451 for ; Wed, 11 Feb 1998 12:51:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sbabkin@dcn.att.com) From: sbabkin@dcn.att.com Received: by kcgw1.att.com; Wed Feb 11 14:47 CST 1998 Received: from dcn71.dcn.att.com (dcn71.dcn.att.com [135.44.192.112]) by kcig1.att.att.com (AT&T/GW-1.0) with ESMTP id OAA09127 for ; Wed, 11 Feb 1998 14:39:15 -0600 (CST) Received: by dcn71.dcn.att.com with Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) id <1TCGKCGZ>; Wed, 11 Feb 1998 15:53:36 -0500 Message-ID: To: jfieber@indiana.edu, jbryant@unix.tfs.net Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Sony SDT-1700 Tape won't write 4Gig Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 15:53:33 -0500 X-Priority: 3 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > ---------- > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe hackers" in the body of the message