>Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 17:46:25 -0800
>From: Kevin Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>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
>
>BTW, does anyone know how to access the loader on a FastStor DLT7000? ...
Ummm, it would kind of help to know what OS you're using.
>-Hawk
John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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
>i doubt i have is why the units of the speed are kps since the units of the
>rest of the typetape are kbytes???
If you read the amanda(8) man page, you'll see "kps" means KBytes per
second, so the value you got seems perfectly reasonable to me. All the
rest of the values are sizes, not speeds,
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm new to Amanda, but am configuring it for a spanking new
> Dell PowerVault
> tape drive -- which has a Archive Python DDS4 unit in it.
> From the mail
> archives, I got this tapetype:
>
> define tapetype PV-100T-DDS4 {
> comment "Dell PowerVault 100T"
> leng
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
Hi,
I'm new to Amanda, but am configuring it for a spanking new Dell PowerVault
tape drive -- which has a Archive Python DDS4 unit in it. From the mail
archives, I got this tapetype:
define tapetype PV-100T-DDS4 {
comment "Dell PowerVault 100T"
length 16534 mbytes
file
