On Sunday 28 January 2007 11:28, you wrote: > I had some limited experience with DDS4 drives/tapes about 10 years > back, and one thing I found to be absolutely true: DDS4 tapes > labelled/written-to on one DDS4 drive will NOT work in another DDS4 > drive.
I could believe that. Is there any decent way to "format" the tape other than "mt erase", which fails identically to writes with "dd"? > My suggestion, if you haven't done so already, is to take a fresh DDS4 tape > that has never been in any drive and try that in your new DDS4 drive. If > you've done this, and it still won't perform at DDS4, then I'd try and find > out what those DIP switches do, chances are good one of them will toggle > between DDS3/DDS4 compression. I've double-checked all the documented switches and they look OK. Guess my next step is to try and find Seagate's tech support. -- Kirk Strauser
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