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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!menudo.uh.edu!uuneo!sugar!peter From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: MT-02 Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900 Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1993 17:16:19 GMT Message-ID: <CC9xB8.19E@sugar.NeoSoft.COM> References: <match.21.0@> <CC3zDw.Iu0@sugar.NeoSoft.COM> <3914@bigfoot.first.gmd.de> Lines: 31 In article <3914@bigfoot.first.gmd.de> ats@g386bsd.first.gmd.de (Andreas Schulz) writes: > This combination sounds like an old SUN shoebox drive :-). You got it in one. > It is normal, that it would you give only 45Mb on the probe, because > the 60Mb are only with the extra-length cartridges. We get 60MB on the DC600A cartridges at work. All my cartridges are DC600As. No DC300s or DC450s. Got the same amount on a DC6150 I tried, too. > And the problem > with only getting 30-31Mb on the tape. Are you sure, that you are > writing in QIC-24 mode ? Nope, not sure at all. > This old SUN drives knows two modes, QIC24 > and QIC11, and QIC11 maxes out at 30Mb. On the SUN, you reached the > QIC11 mode with the normal st0/rst0 and the QIC24 mode with st8/rst8. > I don't know, if the st driver on 386BSD/FreeBSD/NetBSD has anywhere > a flag to switch between different modes. Well, if someone comes up with info on that I'd like to know about it. I would have assumed it'd use the highest density the tape supported, and the MT02 is documented as being able to read the tape density info. -- Peter da Silva. <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>. `-_-' Hefur thu fadhmadh ulfinn i dag? 'U` "Det er min ledsager, det er ikke drikkepenge."