Dan Horth wrote:
> now - as I said I have S6 set to off - so DDS pass through is disabled,
> DDS-DC is enalbed, but the tape still wont go beyond 12Gb.
>
> So I guessed that somewhere a "disable DDS-DC" command is being sent -
> although I have not been able to track down how to change this.
>
> I have been using bru, tar and mt to contorl the tape drive.
Dan,
Be sure to check your /etc/brutab file. By default, the brutab file has
an EXAMPLE device that is set up for a 12GB DDS-3 drive. Only, the size
is set to 12GT. This means that BRU will always stop writing at 12G,
prompting for a new volume (or running the mountcmd and unmountcmd
scripts). To make sure that BRU uses the entire tape, set size=0 in
that device entry (or override the size with a '-s 0' on the BRU command
line).
Our internal DDS-3 setup is as follows:
#####################################################
# DDS 3 Drive using 125 meter, 12GB native tapes
# NOTE - set size=0 to allow BRU to write to
# end of tape with compression.
#####################################################
/dev/st0 \
devname="DDS 3, 12GB + Compression, rewind" \
size=0 bufsize=32k seek=0 \
rawtape tape shmcopy rewind autoscan \
shmseg=10 shmmax=128k shmall=2048k
/dev/nst0 \
devname="DDS 3, 12GB, norewind" \
size=0 bufsize=32k seek=0 \
rawtape tape shmcopy norewind noautoscan \
shmseg=10 shmmax=128k shmall=2048k \
eodcmd="mt -f /dev/nst0 eod" \
rfmcmd="mt -f /dev/nst0 fsf 1" \
bfmcmd="mt -f /dev/nst0 bsfm 2" \
retencmd="mt -f /dev/st0 retension" \
rewindcmd="mt -f /dev/st0 rewind"
Sorry about the confusion.
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