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- From: ccwj@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Wayne Jennings)
- Subject: Re: Writing to an Exabyte 8500
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.035530.17783@marlin.jcu.edu.au>
- Keywords: Exabyte 8500
- Organization: James Cook University
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- In article <1993Jan22.162824.22063@mic.ucla.edu> cliff@eggneb.astro.ucla.edu (cliff UCLA Astronomy) writes:
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- >
- > I just got an Exabyte 8500 and I want to know if I can write to it at both
- > high(5.0gig) and low(2.3gig) density. I made the device files and like my
- > other tape units I get both rmt0l's and rmt0h's but a preliminary test using
- > nrmt0l seems to indicate that the tape is writing at high density. Any
- > suggestions????
- >
- > cliff
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- To read 8200 saves on a 8500 use /dev/rmt0a. Also we had to install the new
- SCSI CAM software on our DECstations in order to get the use of all of the
- 5 Gb tape. Before we installed it, only 2.3 Gb of the 8500 5 Gb capacity save
- would be used. This was done via recommendations from DEC.
-
- Hope this helps,
-
- Wayne Jennings
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