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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!newspump.sol.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: scsi tape recommendations Date: 15 Oct 1996 07:47:53 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 21 Message-ID: <53vfj9$bh4@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <53nkk8$etp@miwok.nbn.com> <2e7_9610140138@caamora.caamora.com.au> <hck20f1adc1.fsf@eto.ericsson.se> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 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 etorwi@eto.ericsson.se (Wiker, Raymond) wrote: > I've setup a machine with FreeBSD 2.1.5 and a Tandberg 2 gig > drive. There was some trouble getting more than about 500 MB to a tape > - I suspect that the tape density did not get set correctly. My next > attempt will be using the latest 2.2 snapshot... The code doesn't try to set the density unless you do explicitly. However, you need the patch i've posted, or you need ``mt fsr 1; mt rewind'' first. The Tandbergs don't MODE SENSE useful data unless they have already at least one tape block (but the FreeBSD tape driver relies on useful data from MODE SENSE, since it passes them on to a MODE SELECT). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)