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Date:      Mon, 2 Jun 1997 15:01:33 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Ulf Zimmermann <ulf@Gatekeeper.Alameda.net>
To:        black@zen.cypher.net (Ben Black)
Cc:        rls@mail.id.net, paul@mu.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Archive Tape Autochanger
Message-ID:  <199706022201.PAA20344@Gatekeeper.Alameda.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.970602164347.10344A-100000@zen.cypher.net> from Ben Black at "Jun 2, 97 04:44:00 pm"

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> sounds like you may be incorrectly setting your block size.
> 
> On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Robert Shady wrote:
> 
> > > Robert Shady wrote:
> > > > Has anyone gotten the CSC special Archive DAT auto-changer to work
> > > > with FreeBSD yet?  What did you have to do to get it to work?  I
> > > > am starting to wonder if mine is just defective.  I'm running 2.2.2
> > > > release, and when I load a tape, it spits it back out a few seconds
> > > > later, the drive displays "CHK MAG", and the FreeBSD box reports
> > > > ERROR: Vendor specific ASCQ.  Under different versions of FreeBSD
> > > > I have at least been able to load tapes, and run small backups, but
> > > > now it won't even load the tape.
> > > 
> > > I got it to work.  I could not get it to change tapes using chio
> > > when I had it plugged into my Adaptec 154x but when I put it on my
> > > Adaptec 2940 it worked like a charm.
> > 
> > Have you gotten it to backup 8GB uncompressed yet?  I've got 120 meter
> > tapes in there, and the best I can get is 1GB.  What does your 
> > "mt status" report for density?  What is a good density to use?  By
> > default, mine reads "0x24", but I've tried 0x00 as well to no avail,
> > I've going to try 0x13 now, but I think that'll limit me to the
> > standard 4GB/uncompressed per tape, but we'll see...

I have the Archive working fine with 4 and 12 tape magazine under
2.2.2R. The DDS2 drive in the changer has ONLY 4GB per 120m tape, not 8GB.

Ulf.

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