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- Path: sparky!uunet!usc!isi.edu!dstrout
- From: dstrout@isi.edu (David Strout)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
- Subject: Low capacity on Viper SCSI tape drives
- Message-ID: <22341@venera.isi.edu>
- Date: 5 Sep 92 00:44:01 GMT
- Reply-To: dstrout@isi.edu (David Strout)
- Organization: Information Sciences Institute, Univ. of So. California
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- I have an old Sun3 shoebox (external case w/ 312MB scsi drive and a
- Viper SCSI tape unit) hooked to a color slab. My thought had been to
- use the tape for backup. I run a little program to do a MTIOCFIXBLK
- to set the block size on /dev/nrst0 to 512 bytes. Then, when I do a
- tar cvf - . > /dev/nrst0, I run out of tape after about 7.5 MB. This
- is with a DC6150 cartrige. What else to I need to do to get the
- per-tape capacity up to the 100-150MB range where it belongs?
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- Thanks,
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- dave.
-