Re: tape type for Travan 40 GB ?

Subject:	Re: tape type for Travan 40 GB ?
From:	Gene Heskett <gene_heskett AT iolinc DOT net>
To:	"Ulf Wostner" <wostner AT cyberprof DOT com>, <amanda-users AT amanda DOT org>
Date:	Wed, 7 Aug 2002 21:40:23 -0400

On Wednesday 07 August 2002 14:07, Ulf Wostner wrote:
>Greetings,
>
>Would anyone out there have the tape type for Travan 40  ( 20/40
> GB) ?  The SeaGate model number is STTM40.   It came with my
> SeaGate TapeStor drive.
>
>Thanks a lot!
>
>Ulf Wostner
>
>wostner AT cyberprof DOT com

There is a tapetype program in the utils directory IIRC.  Turn off 
the drives hardware compression and leave it off.  Then run the 
tapetype program against the drive with a tape that you can afford 
to erase.  It will spit out when its done, the capacity of the 
drive in a format that can be copy/pasted into your amanda.conf.

It will take quite some time on a 40gig tape, so starting it at 
bedtime seems like a good idea.  When you have a valid tapetype, 
please post it to this list so that someone can add it to the 
distributions examples.

And thanks.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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