On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 22:46 -0400, Ciro Iriarte wrote:
2005/8/11, Ken Schneider <suse-list@bout-tyme.net>:
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.
By the way, i think it's better to use "mtst" instead of "mt"
CI.-
Just did a mtst -f /dev/st0 densities and the correct setting for DDS-4 should be 0x26. The OP I believe had a code of 0x8c EXB-8505 compressed. Perhaps that is why he is having problems fitting all of his data on a single tape. -- 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