Confirmed. I recently ran tapetype on my FastStor DLT7000 (/dev/nst0 or
/dev/st0) and I got this:
define tapetype unknown-tapetype {
comment "just produced by tapetype program"
length 29742 mbytes
filemark 0 kbytes
speed 4076 kps
}
BTW, does anyone know how to access the loader on a FastStor DLT7000? I
can talk to the tape drive just fine, but the loader is on another SCSI
channel, and I don't have a device which seems to work for it. Any
suggestions? Is there a device list somewhere?
Thanks for your time.
Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>
> On Jan 5, 2001, Ben Elliston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > These figures looks reasonable, but surely filemarks are not 0 kb in size!?
> > Can anyone confirm the correctness of this definition?
>
> They may well be. Some newer tape drives somehow manage to encode the
> filemarks in data space, so they effectively take zero space.
>
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