Amanda-Users

Re: Tapetype claims tape is 8.5 GB when it should be 12 GB

2002-08-13 17:54:32
Subject: Re: Tapetype claims tape is 8.5 GB when it should be 12 GB
From: Ulrik Sandberg <ulsa AT purple DOT se>
To: Jon LaBadie <jon AT jgcomp DOT com>
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 23:43:57 +0200 (Västeuropa, sommartid)
On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Jon LaBadie wrote:

...

> In addition to the excellent advice from Gene and Kenny, just a note about
> Solaris and devices.  Which device, of the many in /dev/rmt, turns on and
> off compression depends on the name and is controlled by a file "st.conf"
> in the directory /kernel/drv/.

...

>     HPdds3  = 1, 0x34,  0, 0x0D639,    4, 0x00, 0x13, 0x24, 0x03, 3;
>     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^     N   0     1     2     3    D
>        not germain to this              keys to discription below

...

> D) which of the 4 entries is the "default", corresponding to drive 0
>    with no additional letters except "b" or "n".  I.e. no l,m,h,c,u.
>    For this entry, drive 0 is the same as 0c (or 0u)**

Thanks for digging this up and presenting it so clearly.

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Ulrik Sandberg