Quoting Joi Ellis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Paul Tomblin wrote:
> >So far nothing has worked. I've tried "mt weof 10", "mt erase" and "mt
> >setdensity 0x24", and nothing has worked.
>
> Perhaps we're missing something... DAT cartridges com in various
> flavors, right? DDS1 vs DDS2, etc. Perhaps your media knows it isn't
> tested for compressed drives and doesn't have the proper notches.
Nope, the tapes say DDS2, and one that I fortuitously hadn't done a
amlabel on works as a DDS2. I stuck it in, did a tapetype on it, and it
showed it as being 3.5 Gb and mt status showed it as DDS2.
[amanda@stratus tape-src]$ mt status
SCSI 2 tape drive:
File number=0, block number=0, partition=0.
Tape block size 512 bytes. Density code 0x24 (DDS-2).
Soft error count since last status=0
General status bits on (41010000):
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