On Thu, 2002-06-13 at 17:01, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Thu, 2002-06-13 at 15:47, Carlos Laviola wrote: > > [ Please Cc me on replies; I'm not subscribed to debian-user. ] > > > > Hey folks, > > > > I have a Sony SDT-7000 tape drive that can, theoretically, record up to > > 8 Gb of data on a DDS2 tape. However, I can only get it to store 4 Gb > > on any DDS2 tape I try (4 Gb == max for DDS1, iirc). > > > > Anyway, anyone has info on this? Have you experienced this problem > > before? > > > > Here's the logs from the kernel bootup: > [snip] > > http://www.neutronexpress.com/prod.cfm/36522/SONY/SDT-D7000/ME > > "Individual Tape Capacity (Compressed) : 8 GB" > "Misc Features : Built-in Hardware Compression" > > http://www.neutronexpress.com/prod.cfm/85103/SONY/SDT-7000/BM > "Individual Tape Capacity (Compressed) : 8 GB" > > Note that the ME variant has hardware compression but the BM > variant does not. > > Either way, the native capacity is 4GB. So, maybe gzip is > still your friend...
http://www.pacificdata.com/sdt7000.html But this site says "* 16GB with hardware data compression". Most confusing... -- +---------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://ronandheather.dhs.org:81 | | | | "I have created a government of whirled peas..." | | Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, 12-May-2002, | ! CNN, Larry King Live | +---------------------------------------------------------+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
