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  From: Steve Sloan <steve@lansol.com.au>
  To  : Linux-SA <LinuxSA@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 13:05:38 +0930

DDS2 and TAR

Hi all

I am testing a second hand DDS2 DAT drive in my HR7.0 server and found that
all the tapes that came with the drive (source unknown) will only backup
2.7gig every time with the following message

Total bytes written: 2876098560 (2.7GB, 600kB/s)
tar: /dev/st0: Cannot write: No space left on device

apart from this they appear to work quite well

On trying a brand new tape I found I could backup 4 gig quite easily.

Therefore it would appear the formatting on the tape is wrong. Is there a
way to reformat the tape and regain the extra capacity?


Steve Sloan
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LanSol Computers
283 Burbridge Rd.
Brooklyn Park SA 5032
Ph 618 8238 3406   Fax 618 83538479
Email   steve@lansol.com.au
URL  www.lansol.com.au
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