Re: Sony SDT-7000 Tape Drive & DDS2 Tapes?
On Thu, 2002-06-13 at 15:47, Carlos Laviola wrote:
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> 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...
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