Stefan Ulrich Hegner wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> I got an old 525MB SCSI Tape, and I wonder how to format the cartdiges.
> Is it possible to get ftformat to do the trick?
Stefan,
ftformat and friends are for use with the floppy-based TR and QIC-80/120
drives. Your 525 is a SCSI drive, so you use mt from the mt-st package.
Notes:
First, SCSI tapes don't require formatting.
Second, you CAN erase them using mt as so:
mt -f /dev/st0 erase
Otherwise, you just write to the tapes with tar, BRU, cpio, etc.
Make sure that you use the correct media for the drive:
DC6525 = 525MB
DC6250 = 250MB
DC6150 = 150MB
No other tape formats work for writing in that drive.
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