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  From: <"/S=Macintosh/G=Brian/OU=stellaris/CN=Brian/"@server1.stellaris.com.au>
  To  : <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 09:56:14 +0930

sony dds3 tape drive

Hello,
has anyone had any good experiences with Sony DDS tape drives. The one 
I am having trouble with is a DDS3 SDT9000 which is supposed to backup 
12GB native. It seems to be backing up 1.3GB and then the message is 
that the media is full. The tapes are 125m.
Sony say that they don't support Linux. 
I have tried tar and flexbackup using dump and both have had problems. 
I have left the jumpers as they came which seems to disable hardware 
compression but we have been doing software compression.

Below are several files which may help.
regards,
Brian Macintosh
Consultant
Stellaris Consulting
8267 4111
brian@stellaris.com.au

/proc/scsi/scsi
Attached devices: 
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00
  Vendor: ADAPTEC  Model: RAID-1           Rev: 320R
  Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
  Vendor: SONY     Model: SDT-9000         Rev: 0400
  Type:   Sequential-Access                ANSI SCSI revision: 02

du -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda6             749M   56M  654M   8% /
/dev/sda1              30M  3.4M   25M  12% /boot
/dev/sda10             12G  4.8G  6.4G  43% /home
/dev/sda8             509M  512k  483M   0% /tmp
/dev/sda5             2.5G  1.2G  1.2G  49% /usr
/dev/sda7             749M   80M  631M  11% /var


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