From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 14 15:58:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA28081 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 14 Mar 1998 15:58:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA27990 for ; Sat, 14 Mar 1998 15:58:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA23807; Sat, 14 Mar 1998 15:58:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Sat, 14 Mar 1998 15:58:23 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Douglas Hedges cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can't set TR4 tape blocksize In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 14 Mar 1998, Douglas Hedges wrote: > Running 2.2.5; m'board is ASUS P55T2P4S (on-board SCSI). When querying my > HP TR4i tape drive I get: > > # mt status > Present Mode: Density = 0x45 Blocksize = 512 bytes ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Note the *CURRENT* mode here ..... > ---------available modes--------- > Mode 0: Density = 0x00 Blocksize variable > Mode 1: Density = X3.136-1986 Blocksize = 512 bytes > Mode 2: Density = X3.39-1986 Blocksize variable > Mode 3: Density = X3.54-1986 Blocksize variable > > > But when trying to set a variable blocksize I get the following: > > # mt blocksize 0 Try `mt density 0' first. See mt(8) for details. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message