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  From: Steve Sloan <steve@lansol.com.au>
  To  : Glen Turner <glen.turner@aarnet.edu.au>
  Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 13:37:56 +0930

Re: DDS2 and TAR

OK,

But both the tapes are Imation DSS-120 so I would expect the length to be
the same and  as for compression I have Hardware compression set on the
drive itself, but even without compression I would expect 4 gig to fit
anyway.
I have given the drive a good clean and apart from the EOT error the drive
is working very well.

Going on what you say about the EOT being a physical thing, I still find
this a bit strange.
Anyway might be time to get some more tapes!


Steve

----- Original Message -----
From: Glen Turner <glen.turner@aarnet.edu.au>
To: Steve Sloan <steve@lansol.com.au>
Cc: Linux-SA <LinuxSA@linuxsa.org.au>
Sent: Monday, 30 April 2001 13:26
Subject: Re: DDS2 and TAR


> Steve Sloan wrote:
> >
> > Therefore it would appear the formatting on the tape is wrong. Is there
a
> > way to reformat the tape and regain the extra capacity?
>
> There is no soft formatting to mark EOT, it's done physically.
> Hitting the physical EOT is a Bad Thing.
>
> So most software needs to be told the tape length.  This can be
> done by guess or by coding on the tape housing.  It's possible
> your older tapes don't have coding and are forcing a conservative
> guess.
>
> The tapes might be differing lengths, or maybe you're using
> compression inconsistently.
>
> That about covers the possibilities,
> Glen
>
> PS: Don't forget to use the cleaning tape.  DAT is very sensitive
> to that.
>
> --
>  Glen Turner                                 Network Engineer
>  (08) 8303 3936      Australian Academic and Research Network
>  glen.turner@aarnet.edu.au          http://www.aarnet.edu.au/
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