by Duffy M » Thu, 04 Jan 1996 04:00:00
by Chris Lyo » Fri, 05 Jan 1996 04:00:00
Don't forget that you will also need to clean this drive with a cleaning tape
quite regularly.
Hope this helps,
Chris.
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by Richard B. Joh » Fri, 05 Jan 1996 04:00:00
For a 112 meter tape, it will store 5gb uncompressed and 10gb compressed.
For a 160 meter tape, it will store 7gb uncompressed and 14 gb compressed.
Be sure to use only data-grade metal-particle media. Do not use Hi-8
video media, because you may not be able to retrieve the data from it.
Regards,
R Johns
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by Timothy J. Hancho » Sat, 06 Jan 1996 04:00:00
Tim Hanchon
1. creating tar tapes from 14 gb for a 5 gb tape drive
I've been trying with no success to create a tar tape from my Solaris 2.4
system using a 14 gb tape drive for a customer with a 2.3 and a 5 gb
tape drive, working on a Sun OS. For the 5gb drive I use /dev/rmt/0l,
for the 2.3 drive I use /dev/rmt/0ln. The customer still can't read any
of these tapes. The solution is not to find another media and for now
we've been ftp'ing the files to them but I don't want to have to depend
on that. I called Sun and their response was that this is a known
problem ( a phrase that makes me cringe) and sure enough, in the
documentation, this problem is mentioned in the Late Breaking News
booklet, page 3. There is a work around but it's not one I wish to take
at this time, editing the /kernel. The technician who brought this to my
attention heavily suggested against this also. Is there a way to deliver
a tar created tape that this customer can read? My next step is to
try cpio but that's not the tar created tape that the customer would
like. Star Lakavage, Aegis Services, P. O. Box 160, Clinton, TN 37717,
telephone 615-457-8242.
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