Dumping to an exabyte tape drive
Shane Youl
sfy at dmp.csiro.au
Thu Sep 6 10:36:29 AEST 1990
We are running Solbourne's here, and their current release of OS/MP based on
Sun OS 4.0.3 has a /etc/media file which can be used by dump to determine
tape characteristics. Here are the relevant entries for Exabytes.
#
# TAPE/DUMP MEDIA DATA BASE:
#
# name density passes length irg error ntrec xrate
#
# units bytes/"/ times '->ft inner % 1K Kb/sec
# pass over "->inch record of blocks/
# tape or tape record
# to stream
# EOT gap
# 1/10"
#---- EXABYTE MEDIA (P6)
X_256 466033 1 48' 0 4 63 500
X_512 466033 1 91' 0 3 63 500
X_1024 466033 1 176' 0 3 63 500
X_1536 466033 1 261' 0 3 63 500
X_2048 466033 1 346' 0 3 63 500
P6-15 466033 1 48' 0 4 63 500
P6-30 466033 1 91' 0 3 63 500
P6-60 466033 1 176' 0 3 63 500
P6-90 466033 1 261' 0 3 63 500
P6-120 466033 1 346' 0 3 63 500
#---- EXABYTE MEDIA (P5)
P5-15 466033 1 69' 0 3 63 500
P5-30 466033 1 128' 0 6 63 500
P5-60 466033 1 246' 0 3 63 500
P5-90 466033 1 366' 0 3 63 500
Hope this is of some help.
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