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Re: DLT 7000 tapetype

2003-03-04 23:32:39
Subject: Re: DLT 7000 tapetype
From: Jon LaBadie <jon AT jgcomp DOT com>
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 22:06:23 -0500
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 01:56:29PM -0700, Terri Eads wrote:
> I ran the tapetype program from 2.4.3 on a DLT 7000 
> drive in an Overland MiniLibrary Xpress and got the
> following:
> 
> define tapetype DLT7000 {
>     comment "just produced by tapetype program"
>     length 29668 mbytes
>     filemark 0 kbytes
>     speed 1700 kps
> 
> The "filemark 0 kbytes" just doesn't look right to me.
> Does anyone else have something else for a DLT7000?

Filemark 0 is quite common.
Some tape formats leave a separate track for such synchronization
information.  Others write it as part of the data stream.

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