I just had someone add a DDS2 DAT to a remote server, and though they
claim it has a DDS2 tape in it, the drive says it's using DDS1. To see if
it was reporting bogus info, I made a file of 1mb from /dev/urandom, and
sent 3139 copies of that file to /dev/nst0 before it told me it was out of
space. That's better compression than I expeced from /dev/urandom, but
seems to confirm I'm not getting 4gb native. The drive ids as:
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00
Vendor: SONY Model: SDT-7000 Rev: 0300
Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
# mt -f /dev/nst0 status
SCSI 2 tape drive:
File number=3139, block number=1, partition=0.
Tape block size 0 bytes. Density code 0x13 (DDS (61000 bpi)).
Soft error count since last status=0
General status bits on (1010000):
ONLINE IM_REP_EN
mt -f /dev/nst0 setdensity 0x24 results in:
/dev/nst0: Input/output error
st0: Error with sense data: extra data not valid Current error st09:00:
sense key Illegal Request
Additional sense indicates Invalid field in parameter list
The tape should be one of several TDK DDS2 cartridges I just sent to the
remote site. Anyone know how to convince the drive to write DDS2?
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