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List:       linux-dump-users
Subject:    Re: [Dump-users] dump to a compaq DLT40/80 on SLES7
From:       Jean Couedic <couedic () mail ! enpc ! fr>
Date:       2003-04-30 16:47:36
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Kevin Cowley wrote:
> OS - SUSE SLES7 (2.4.7 kernel)
> 
> E2fs - 1.32 (latest)
> 
> Dump 0.4b34
> 
>  
> 
> Tape drive Compaq DLT40/80
> 
> Density code returned by mt is 0x1b (unknown) although this is actually 
> a 35GB uncompressed drive.
> 
>  
> 
> Dump will only write a maximum of 6GB to the tape. Any ideas why and how 
> to fix it so that it correctly recognises the correct tape capacity?
> 
>  
> 
> Kevin Cowley
>
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I used something like that in the past:

mt -f /dev/st0 setdensity 0x85		# compress scsi dlt 35/70	
dump 0Bf 70000000 /dev/nst0 /dev/sda1	# for 70MO

but perhaps it is obsolete with recent versions of dlt or dump

-- 
         ,
Jean Couedic
E N P C - D I T




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