Hello all,
Thanks to Daniel Monjar, Pat O'Brien, Chris Ruhnke and Alan Nabeth...the
gist of the situation is that the DLT7000/TZ89 are able to write at a
density readable by the DLT4000/TZ88 device:
> 1) Use /dev/rmt?a and CT IV medium to create 20GB uncompressed data
magtape.
> 2) Use /dev/rmt?l and CT IV medium to create 40 GB compressed data magtape.
I've not yet done this testing, as the other party in my original scenario
was able to lay hands on an equivalent drive.
Please also note that the tz(8) man page is very helpful in these matters.
Dan
Original Note [excerpt]:
I hope someone can shed some light on a tape issue that has arisen between
two different locations within my company. On system A we've created some
tapes using a generic "tar cvf /dev/rmt0h <dir>" to a DLT7000 drive, but
these are turning out to be unreadable on system B, with a TZ88
drive. Some details are appended below (in which System B has a tape from
System A mounted).
My fundamental question would be, do we stand a chance of reading these
tapes on system B, or are these drives just plain incompatible? Sorry if
this is a dumb question, but I haven't really dealt much with tape drives
since 1600 bpi was considered high density...
Received on Mon May 21 2001 - 13:42:13 NZST