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- Subject: Re: 120Mb tapes on SCO UNIX
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- Date: 18 Nov 92 14:42:33 GMT
- References: <Bx5yoq.70r@inet-uk.co.uk> <Bx85uK.6C4@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us> <1992Nov6.232519.5474@mr.med.ge.com> <6060@sixhub.UUCP>
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- davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) writes:
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- >In article <1992Nov6.232519.5474@mr.med.ge.com> frigo@opustech.com writes:
- >| You can write DC600A tapes in a 150 M byte drive, but SCO will
- >| only allow you to put 60 M bytes on the tape.
-
- >Could you give a little more detail on taht? In what way does your SCO
- >software stop you from writing more on the tape (other than spacifying
- >the tape size to the software you use, if applicable)?
-
- What frigo@opustech.com said was not quite correct.
- The tape driver was not limiting his tape capacity but rather
- the /etc/default/tar file had 60 meg as the device limit.
- SCO must have shipped 3.2.0 that way. 3.2.1 and 3.2.2 were
- shipped with 0 in that field. This allows unlimited writes
- by tar. This was only a tar issue.
-
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- >>>>>>>>>>>> Peter Reilley ..... pvr@wiis.wang.com ..... KA1LAT <<<<<<<<<<<<<
- Well, that about says it.
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