Hello Jon, If it is simular to the 5000 series
(we may have a 7000 though) , there is a switch
block on the thing that can be set to compress
auto/always . If it is set to always then the
scsi set commands (may) fail . To be honest I've
-never- had good response using the 'mt' command &
setting density/compression/& a few others.
Although setting blocksize 0 has always worked to
get variable block sizes . Hth
On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Jon Lewis wrote:
> I just had someone add a DDS2 DAT to a remote server, and though they
> claim it has a DDS2 tape in it, the drive says it's using DDS1. To see if
> it was reporting bogus info, I made a file of 1mb from /dev/urandom, and
> sent 3139 copies of that file to /dev/nst0 before it told me it was out of
> space. That's better compression than I expeced from /dev/urandom, but
> seems to confirm I'm not getting 4gb native. The drive ids as:
>
> Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00
> Vendor: SONY Model: SDT-7000 Rev: 0300
> Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> # mt -f /dev/nst0 status
> SCSI 2 tape drive:
> File number=3139, block number=1, partition=0.
> Tape block size 0 bytes. Density code 0x13 (DDS (61000 bpi)).
> Soft error count since last status=0
> General status bits on (1010000):
> ONLINE IM_REP_EN
>
> mt -f /dev/nst0 setdensity 0x24 results in:
>
> /dev/nst0: Input/output error
> st0: Error with sense data: extra data not valid Current error st09:00:
> sense key Illegal Request
> Additional sense indicates Invalid field in parameter list
>
> The tape should be one of several TDK DDS2 cartridges I just sent to the
> remote site. Anyone know how to convince the drive to write DDS2?
>
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