Hi, Now that I've added a DDS4 tape drive to my backup arsenal and will be using DDS4 tapes, I'm requestioning the "filemark" parameter in tapetypes. The DDS3 drive I've used all this time has had a tapetype with a filemark of 0. I believe this is what the 'tapetype' test produced and, when I checked with other tapetypes and possibly people on the list that such a value wasn't ludicrous, I went with it...and I've experienced no problems because of it. But, looking over the tapetypes in general again, this value is usual non-zero which is making me requestion my decision. Why do so many people use a non-zero filemark value (one tapetype I saw for a DLT used one over a meg)? What's the point? If 0 works fine (is this only true for me?), why ever use anything else? I'm missing the point of any advantage it serves.
Just curious if anyone had any input or a good answer for this. A quick search for "filemark" in the archives was futile as I mostly conjured up nothing but tapetype listings instead of discussion on the matter. -- Paul Yeatman (858) 534-9896 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
