Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 21:52:00 -0600 (CST) From: obiwan!bob@uudell.us.dell.com (Bob Willcox) To: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov (Sean Kelly) Cc: hart@tasman.cc.utas.edu.au, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: SCSI Tape utilities (DAT Wangtek) ? Message-ID: <m0rjIyf-00030MC@obiwan.uucp> In-Reply-To: <9502272308.AA26173@junco.fsl.noaa.gov> from "Sean Kelly" at Feb 27, 95 04:08:01 pm
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Sean Kelly wrote:
>
> >>>>> "Bill" == Bill Hart <hart@tasman.cc.utas.edu.au> writes:
>
> Bill> The classic "mt" program wouldn't recognise the device type
> Bill> of my scsi DAT (Wangtek?) drive, but st worked fine.
>
> The "mt" in 2.0-RELEASE works with my Wang 6130-HS DAT drive. What,
> specifically, does "mt" not do for you?
Sorry to butt in here, but for my Exabyte 8200's it won't let me set
blocksize. This seems to be necesary to get the drives to work
properly. I have to set blocksize to 0 (variable).
There is also some support in st for setting density, but I haven't used
it (8200's are single density).
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