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Magnetic tape control tools for Linux SCSI tapes
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stinit.def example for LTO-6 #10

Closed jonasstein closed 6 years ago

jonasstein commented 6 years ago

7 provides an example configuration for LTO3, but how should the entry look like for LTO6?

I have a LTO6 drive available, so please let me know, how I can help.

the status output while an LTO-5 tape is loaded is:

mt -f /dev/st0 status
SCSI 2 tape drive:
File number=0, block number=0, partition=0.
Tape block size 0 bytes. Density code 0x58 (LTO-5).
Soft error count since last status=0
General status bits on (41010000):
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iustin commented 6 years ago

Not sure if anything is needed, actually. I also have an LTO6, and it works with the default config…

jonasstein commented 6 years ago

thank you very much. I thought I could have a wrong configuration, because my tape breaks often. I saw with mbuffer, that the buffer is still full, but I could hear the LTO-5 tape stop every 18 GB. LTO-5 has 80 wraps for 1.5 TB which would be in the same order, however the support told me, that I should not hear a stop noise and that the tape would not wind. Thank you for the great mt tool.