On Wednesday 22 September 2004 15:47, Leandro wrote: >(excuse me for my bad english) > >I have 2 tapes: > I asume you mean tape drives below
>Quantum Super DLT 320 >HP DDS-3 4MM DAT Both should be able to be used unless the Quantum somehow has a broken scsi protocol, which isn't likely. >connected to Sun Enterprise 250 > >Are these tapes compatible with Amanda? >I canīt find information about that. Consult your equ to dmesg and see what device it was found at when the machine was last booted. Then, using mt, check that device and see if you can control a tape inserted into those drives. Ditto the changer if there is one, using mtx this time. If mt works with the quantum, the rewind the tape in it, and fire off a session of amtapetype -f /dev/whatever -e known size of drive, this will get the true capacity of the drive. But... Turn off any hardware compression first else amtapetype will probably complain, and return a tapesize thats obviously smaller that the rated size of the tape with compression turned off. The data src while testing is /dev/urandom, and that will expand in a hardware compressor by 5-15% instead of being shrunk. In any event, amtapetype will probably take several hours to run as it does two, till the tape is full, writes. Don't use a tape with something precious on it. >Leandro >Argentina. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.26% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
