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- From: tjl@zeus02.desy.de (Tim Llewellyn)
- Subject: Re: Problems with EXABYTE tape drive
- Message-ID: <C1A6EA.1I1@dscomsa.desy.de>
- Keywords: EXABYTE
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- Reply-To: tjl@zeus02.desy.de (Tim Llewellyn)
- Organization: Bristol University Particle Physics Group /ZEUS Online
- References: <1993Jan22.200938.22220@das.harvard.edu>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 00:22:57 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan22.200938.22220@das.harvard.edu>, chen@speed.uucp
- (Lilei Chen) writes:
- |>Path:
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- |>
- |>On our site we use EXABYTE tape drive for backup purpose. But we
- |>can not get more than 500MB on a 112M tape which is supposed to be
- |>able to hold more than 2GB according to the specification. We have
- |>about five drives and all behave the same way. We even tried it on
- |>a PC with an ADAPTEC SCSI controler, but the result is the same.
- |>EXABYTE claimed that they don't know anything about the possible
- |>cause. So I am asking the net if anyone has encountered similar
- |>problems with EXABYTE tape drive and/or knows its possible cause.
- |>Thanks.
- |>
- |>Jim (xue@cfaft5.harvard.edu)
- |>
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- you're not using tapes formatted at low density in a high density drive, are
- you. I didn't think it was possible to WRITE to a lower density, only
- read from it?
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- How do you arrive at the 500 MB figure? Are you using the correct blocksize
- to calculate it...
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