Re: Exabyte Mammoth-2

[Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com>]

TomBell1 ages com wrote:
> Thanks Rick for your reply, but I do not have that device "st0m".  All I 
> have is...
>
> # ls -la /dev/*st0*
>
> crw-rw----    1 root     disk       9, 128 May  5  1998 /dev/nst0
> crw-rw----    1 root     disk       9,   0 May  5  1998 /dev/st0
>
> Also when I try your suggestion, I get an error message...
>
> # mt -f /dev/st0 setdensity 0x29
> /dev/st0: Input/output error
>
>
> Maybe could I have not installed this tape drive correctly?  Should I 
> have a "/dev/st0m" device?  Any other ideas???

Well, if you do a "man 4 st", you'll see how Linux wants to handle it.
There's some suggestions for "makedev" commands to set up an st0m
device.  I'm not 100% sure about this, but as I understand it,
st0m is high density, st0l is low density, st0a is autodensity and
st0 is default (probably low density).

The "mt" command must be entered after a tape is inserted and is only
sticky while that tape is in the drive.  When you insert a new tape,
the density will revert to default.
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