Date: Sun, 5 Jul 1998 10:46:47 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Willem Jan Withagen <wjw@surf.IAE.nl>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Apollo tapes (was: Variant Link implementation, continued) Message-ID: <19980705104647.O358@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199807041328.PAA26905@surf.IAE.nl>; from Willem Jan Withagen on Sat, Jul 04, 1998 at 03:28:37PM %2B0200 References: <wjw@surf.IAE.nl> <199807030025.TAA18925@nospam.hiwaay.net> <199807041328.PAA26905@surf.IAE.nl>
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On Saturday, 4 July 1998 at 15:28:37 +0200, Willem Jan Withagen wrote: > In article <199807030025.TAA18925@nospam.hiwaay.net> you write: >> In the early bad old days of DAT (more correctly known as DSS) there >> were more problems than there should have been with one tape drive not >> being able to read tapes from another, all other things the same. > > Oke, My drive is again on line: > > [~] wjw@digi> mt stat > Present Mode: Density = X3B5/88-185A Blocksize variable > ---------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 > > looking at: man mt: > The different density codes are as follows: > > 0x0 default for device > 0xE reserved for ECMA > > Value Tracks Density(bpi) Code Type Reference Note > ........ > 0x13 1 61000 DDS CS X3B5/88-185A 4 > 0x14 1 43245 RLL CS X3.202-1991 4 > 0x15 1 45434 RLL CS ECMA TC17 4 > > Which are 3 DAT formats. And thus it is a DDS-coded tape. This describes the tape unit, not the tape. We've already established that it can't read the tape. > Anybody with more suggestions?? (other than finding the "old" tapedrive) Give up? Or send them to Mike? Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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