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From: sfy@dmp.csiro.au (Shane Youl)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Dumping to an exabyte tape drive
Message-ID: <1990Sep6.003629.15994@dmp.csiro.au>
Date: 6 Sep 90 00:36:29 GMT
Organization: CSIRO Division of Mineral Products, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
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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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