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Re: DDS-2 and DDS-3 with SDT-9000
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter K)
Fri Jun 19 05:58:17 1998
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 11:41:28 +0200 (GMT+0200)
From: Peter K <pko@paradigm-sa.com>
To: Bernard Legras <legras@ella.ens.fr>
cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.93.980619001913.20210C-100000@ella>
On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Bernard Legras wrote:
>
> I have the following configuration
> PII 300 x 2, 512Mb, AHA-2940
> Red Hat 5.0, kernel 2.0.33
> with a SONY DAT SDT-9000 on the scsi bus
>
> The problem I have is that the DAT only accepts to work with
> standard DDS density. It does not accept DDS-2 (Ox24 code
> as documented in mt .. densities), even with DDS-3 tape, and
> I do not know, of course, how to use DDS-3 density which is
> not documented.
Hmmm. Got one on a SPARC Solaris box. The two codes I have are 0x13
(DDS2) and 0x8c (DDS3). BTW, 0x8c will work on a DDS2 (120 m) tape as
well), so it's not the tape that matters, it appears.
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