Re: Sony SDT-7000 Tape Drive & DDS2 Tapes?
On Thu, 2002-06-13 at 17:01, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-06-13 at 15:47, Carlos Laviola wrote:
> > [ Please Cc me on replies; I'm not subscribed to debian-user. ]
> >
> > Hey folks,
> >
> > I have a Sony SDT-7000 tape drive that can, theoretically, record up to
> > 8 Gb of data on a DDS2 tape. However, I can only get it to store 4 Gb
> > on any DDS2 tape I try (4 Gb == max for DDS1, iirc).
> >
> > Anyway, anyone has info on this? Have you experienced this problem
> > before?
> >
> > Here's the logs from the kernel bootup:
> [snip]
>
> http://www.neutronexpress.com/prod.cfm/36522/SONY/SDT-D7000/ME
>
> "Individual Tape Capacity (Compressed) : 8 GB"
> "Misc Features : Built-in Hardware Compression"
>
> http://www.neutronexpress.com/prod.cfm/85103/SONY/SDT-7000/BM
> "Individual Tape Capacity (Compressed) : 8 GB"
>
> Note that the ME variant has hardware compression but the BM
> variant does not.
>
> Either way, the native capacity is 4GB. So, maybe gzip is
> still your friend...
http://www.pacificdata.com/sdt7000.html
But this site says "* 16GB with hardware data compression".
Most confusing...
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