Re: DAT 20/40 on 5.0.5

From: news.nuvox.net (fabiog_at_venmar.com)
Date: 01/26/05


Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 16:31:36 -0600


"Jean-Pierre Radley" <jpr@jpr.com> wrote in message
news:20050126211659.GH11013@jpradley.jpr.com...
> Fabio Giannotti typed (on Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 01:26:47PM -0600):
> | I replaced a DAT 12/24 with a DAT 20/40 on a 5.0.5 system. The 12/24
> was
> | on an Adaptec controller, the 20/40 is on an LSI (slha).
> |
> | I used to be able to do a "tape getcomp" command to find the compression
> | setting of the drive.
> |
> | Now, when I do the same command I get:
> | tape: unable to do 'getcomp' command on '/dev/xct0' : Invalid argument
> |
> | Is there something inherently different about 20/40 drives, is the LSI
> | driver cause a problem?
>
> Since you switched adapters, is the tape still at /dev/xct0, and not for
> example at /dev/xct1? In which case, edit /etit /etc/default/tape.

I removed the old tape and added the 20/40 so it's still rStp0. Backups
work fine and other tape commands such as getblk, getdensity and getspeed
work fine, just not getcmp.

> Have you tried 'edge.tape -t' ?

No edge on this system.

Fabio



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