Frederic Woodbridge wrote:
>
> Do I have to "format" a tape before I can use it, especially if it
> was on an NT box and now no longer is? Am I making sense?
>
Since generally the various medium formats are specified in
international standards and the drivers have to abide by them, I would
say
On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Chris Karakas wrote:
>
>I think he means the density on the magnetic medium, as measured in bits
>per inch. I don't think you can change this (at least not set a higher
>density for a medium constructed with a lower one), because it has to do
>with the density of the magnetic
Joi Ellis wrote:
>
> On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Bernhard R. Erdmann wrote:
>
> >Paul Tomblin wrote:
> [snip]
> >> reformat? I don't have a bulk eraser. I tried using "mt setdensity
> >> DDS-2", but it didn't take.
> >
> >mt weof 5
> >or
> >mt erase
> >or
> >dd if=/dev/zero bs=32k of=$TAPE
>
> In my
> Perhaps we're missing something... DAT cartridges com in various
> flavors, right? DDS1 vs DDS2, etc. Perhaps your media knows it isn't
> tested for compressed drives and doesn't have the proper notches.
Well he said it's a 120 m tape. That's DDS2. DDS1 are 60 and 90 m.
-Mitch
Quoting Joi Ellis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Paul Tomblin wrote:
> >So far nothing has worked. I've tried "mt weof 10", "mt erase" and "mt
> >setdensity 0x24", and nothing has worked.
>
> Perhaps we're missing something... DAT cartridges com in various
> flavors, right? DDS1
On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Paul Tomblin wrote:
>Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 18:33:11 -0400
>From: Paul Tomblin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Amanda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: Changing a tape's density
>
>So far nothing has worked. I've tried "mt weof 1
Paul Tomblin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> So far nothing has worked. I've tried "mt weof 10", "mt erase" and "mt
> setdensity 0x24", and nothing has worked.
I had the same problem, where I accidentally used DDS-2 media in a DDS-1
drive, and the tapes wouldn't be recognized as DDS-2 anymore, ev
Quoting Joi Ellis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Bernhard R. Erdmann wrote:
> >Paul Tomblin wrote:
> [snip]
> >> reformat? I don't have a bulk eraser. I tried using "mt setdensity
> >> DDS-2", but it didn't take.
> >mt weof 5
> >or
> >mt erase
> >or
> >dd if=/dev/zero bs=32k of=$TAP
On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Bernhard R. Erdmann wrote:
>Paul Tomblin wrote:
[snip]
>> reformat? I don't have a bulk eraser. I tried using "mt setdensity
>> DDS-2", but it didn't take.
>
>mt weof 5
>or
>mt erase
>or
>dd if=/dev/zero bs=32k of=$TAPE
In my own experience, using only a dd won't change th
Paul Tomblin wrote:
>
> I just bought a DDS-2 drive to replace my DDS-1 drive (anybody want to buy
> it?). Anyway, I tried one of my 120m tapes that had been used in the
> DDS-1 drive, and it appears that the new drive recognizes the old format
> and won't write to it at the higher density. How
On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Paul Tomblin wrote:
> I just bought a DDS-2 drive to replace my DDS-1 drive (anybody want to buy
> it?). Anyway, I tried one of my 120m tapes that had been used in the
> DDS-1 drive, and it appears that the new drive recognizes the old format
> and won't write to it at the h
Hi Paul,
Surely you can find a decent magnet somewhere to wave them past.
Congratulations on getting rid of the DDS-1. In our experience
those were nothing but trouble. DDS-2 was better but not great.
Apparently it took them until DDS-3 to really get it right. Too
late for me. By that point I'
I just bought a DDS-2 drive to replace my DDS-1 drive (anybody want to buy
it?). Anyway, I tried one of my 120m tapes that had been used in the
DDS-1 drive, and it appears that the new drive recognizes the old format
and won't write to it at the higher density. How can I force it to
reformat? I
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