Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 16:33:44 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas Arnold <tom@inna.net> To: "Paul T. Root" <ptroot@uswest.com> Cc: Jamie Bowden <jamie@inna.net>, questions@freebsd.org, root@inna.net Subject: Re: HP Tapedrive Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960516162920.4438A-100000@caught.inna.net> In-Reply-To: <199605161300.IAA10979@astro.acs.uswest.com>
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On Thu, 16 May 1996, Paul T. Root wrote:
> > and am wondering about hp's cool (not) little toggle switches on the
> > bottom....I need settings for those, if anyone can supply them. mt is
> > returning totally invalid desity codes for the tape drive, and I really
> > need to run backups on this machine soon. HP gives settings for sun,
> > dec, and hp, but not pc...the scsi adapter is an Adaptec 2940UW. Any
> > help is appreciated.
>
> Use the sun setting. I have that very drive and it works quite well.
Okay. Switched to the sun setting.
mt -f /dev/rst0 status returns :
Present Mode: Density = X3B5/88-185A Blocksize variable
---------available modes---------
Mode 0: Density = 0x00 Blocksize variable
Mode 1: Density = 0x00 Blocksize variable
Mode 2: Density = 0x00 Blocksize variable
Mode 3: Density = 0x00 Blocksize variable
running a dump 0uf /dev/rst0 / returns :
DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Thu May 16 16:19:50 1996
DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch
DUMP: Dumping /dev/rsd0a (/) to /dev/rst
DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories]
DUMP: estimated 30299 tape blocks on 0.78 tape(s).
DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories]
DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files]
DUMP: DUMP: 31084 tape blocks on 1 volumes(s)
DUMP: level 0 dump on Thu May 16 16:19:50 1996
DUMP: Closing /dev/rst
DUMP: DUMP IS DONE
This is with a 2gig ( 90meter ) tape in drive.
What bit of stupidity are we commiting? :-)
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