On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 22:43 -0400, Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Thursday 11 August 2005 10:28 pm, Ken Schneider wrote:
On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 19:32 -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote:
The OP is asking about the density code for the drive -not- compression setting. I think the density setting has something to do with the amount of data that will fit on a tape (haven't found info yet). On my DDS-3 it is set to 0x25 (unknown) according to the status command.
What do you tell your DAT drive when you stick a DDS-2 tape in it??
I don't tell mine anything and it reads it as a DDS-2. Same thing would happen for writing. DAT drives are smart and don't need to be told what type of tape (DDS-2, 3, 4 etc) you've put in it.
At least that's what happens on drives worth their salt.
That's what I would think also. I have never changed the density setting and I don't think you would need/want to. When going through man mt it said to check with the manufacturer for the density code so I think it can be changed. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge