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Re: Sony SDT-7000 Tape Drive & DDS2 Tapes?



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...

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