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Date:      Wed, 11 Feb 1998 19:13:21 -0600 (CST)
From:      Jim Bryant <jbryant@unix.tfs.net>
To:        avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au (Darren Reed)
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Sony SDT-1700 Tape won't write 4Gig
Message-ID:  <199802120113.TAA20505@unix.tfs.net>
In-Reply-To: <199802112126.NAA24377@hub.freebsd.org> from Darren Reed at "Feb 12, 98 08:25:15 am"

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In reply:
> In some mail from Jim Bryant, sie said:
> > 
> > In reply:
> > > 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
> > DDS-2  - 120M == 4.0G native, 8.0G using compression
> > DDS-3  - 125M == 6.0G native, 12.0G using compression
> 
> DDS3 is 12G native, 24G w/ compression.

oops...  i WAS unsure about that...  neet though, i've got a couple i
haven't even used yet on a couple of HP-9000/829-K420's...

jim
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