Taper settings w/ Exabyte 8505

["Sébastien Phélep" <Sebastien.Phelep@univ-ubs.fr>]

Hi,

I'd like to know if anybody knows how to make taper work correctly with
an Exabyte 8505 streamer (or whatever you call it:-)).
My only problem is that I cannot use the "can seek" functionnality (if I
use it, taper doesn't seem to be able to retrieve the good block; I
guess my block-size settings are not correct), although someone told me
that this drive could handle it.

As I don't have any documentation for this drive, I'm not sure it's
true.
Here's the result of cat /proc/scsi/scsi; if someone has the same drive
and know what settings are needed with taper, please give me a hand:

Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 05 Lun: 00
  Vendor: EXABYTE Model: EXB-85058HE-0000 Rev: 0085
  Type: Sequential access                 ANSI SCSI revision: 2

Here are my settings (Tape drive preferences):

Rewinding device: /dev/st0
Non-rewinding device: /dev/nst0
Have fast fsf: YES
Can seek: NO (w/ taper, SCSI defaults to YES)
Set block size: NO
Get block size: NO
Block size: 028K
Need to erase tapes: NO
Tape size in MB: 0 (If use anything else, taper doesn't work:()

Please note: I _can_ make backups and I _can_ restore them; I just
cannot use taper's "can seek" functionnality.

Suggestions anybody ?

Thanks,
Seb.


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