Re: Newbie with tapes

	Hello Pablo ,  Both "man st" &
	"more path-to-linux/drivers/scsi/README.st" have info .  But it
	appears that neither have a description of the st0[alm] modifiers
	except in (very) general terms .  Hth ,  JimL
ps:	Try:  http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/SCSI-2.4-HOWTO/

On Wed, 21 May 2003, [ISO-8859-1] Pablo Giménez Pizarro wrote:

> Hi all, i'm newbie with tapes and i have some doubts.
> I've to make backups of a file server for about 30 GB, i've decided to
> use  a tape device, this is a SCSI Sony SDT-9000.
> But i need some info about this devices:
> -I've seen that there are different kinds of densities, the tapes i have
> are DDS3, but the mt command doesn't have this density, the density is
> hrdware or software depend??? if a type 'mt -f /dev/st0 status i get
> that the density tha the device is using have code 0x25, but this code
> is unknown for the mt command. This is correct???
> -What kind of device i've to use, i've seen that there are st0, st0a,
> st0l and st0m; and the respectives for the no-rewind devices: nst0X.
> What's the diferences between these types of devices????
> -How can i know the capacity of my tape???, and the free space in the
> tape???, for compress and uncompress modes
>
> Thanks for all
>
>

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