On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 09:22, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
Is there a way to determine how much a tape can hold without physically taking the tape out of the drive and looking at the label? The following is dmesg output about my tape drive (and SCSI CD-ROM).
scsi0 : Initio INI-9X00U/UW SCSI device driver; Revision: 1.03g Vendor: SONY Model: SDT-5200 Rev: 3.30 Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Vendor: TOSHIBA Model: CD-ROM XM-6201TA Rev: 1030 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 st: Version 20020805, bufsize 32768, wrt 30720, max init. bufs 4, s/g segs 16 Attached scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 3, lun 0 Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0
The Sony SDT-5200 is a DDS2 tape device. DDS2 is 4G native & 8G compressed. I would suggest using the mt-tools to work with the drive.
I use mt-tools to rewind the tape and such and tar to read and write it.
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