"FORMAT=DRIVE" just says use what ever can be used on the medium...
     or "best possible"  I believe even the online help under "define
     devclass"... yeah it is I just checked... I saw it under device class
     for DLT tapes where there are the optional commpression settings and
     the such, which reminded me of the bonus to using format=drive. Say
     you have a DLT library and the drives don't have compression and then
     you add a drive that has optional compression.  If you used
     format=drive in your device class origionally you could add the drive
     without having to create a new device class to take advantage of the
     compression.
     later
          Dwight
     (oh, and it also helps if you have to define a DLT drive but have
     absolutely NO documentation on it and you get 4 different answers from
     4 different people when you ask them about this drive they dumped on
     you to use, don't you just LOVE IT when that happens)


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Subject: Re: High Capacity Tapes
Author:  ADSM-L (ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU) at unix,mime
Date:    3/27/97 10:56 AM


Hi Lambros,

Lambros Rizos wrote:
>
> 1)We have a 7331 Drive 160m tapes and FORMAT=DRIVE. This work.

I'm not sure what you mean by FORMAT=DRIVE.  Up until now, I just
do a dsmlabel and then do a checkin of the tapes into the 7331
jukebox.

> 2)Are there MRS tapes ?
>

The tapes we are using are 8mm tapes.

>
... My original stuff deleted...
>

It's just that when we use the 120m tapes, we get close to 5GB
of storage on a tape, but when I use a 160m 8mm tape I still only
get close to 5GB of storage.

Do I have to defined a different storage pool for the 160m tapes?
Any help would be appreciated.

Francisco

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