Does anyone have experience with the Sony SDT-7000 4mm DAT drive on a
Linux box? Mine refuses to write more than 4GB to tape, and seems to be
stuck at a density of 0x13 (ie, trying to do a "mt setdensity 0x24"
fails with "/dev/tape: Input/output error", with /dev/tape being a
symlink to /dev/nst0). This is with RH 6.0, kernel 2.2.10ac10, and an
NCR 810 adapter.
The only jumper on the drive not related to termination or SCSI id is
"DC Disable" which according to the docs is DAT Compression Disable, and
is not jumpered.
There is also a tiny 4 position dip switch which Sony refers to as the
"UNIX Compatibility Switches", but nothing I've seen from the docs that
came with the drive, nor from Sony's Faxback service describe the
switches in any greater detail than that.
Does anyone have any ideas how I might set this silly thing so it'll
write more than 4GB?
Thanks,
Mike
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