[daip] ZMOUN2 (linux)
Eric Greisen
egreisen at nrao.edu
Fri Apr 28 17:21:50 EDT 2000
Linux only returns SCSI 1 or 2 - no other tape type. There is now a
trick of attem,pting to see what the desnity already is. That does
help determine what the device is. On the other hand, an 8500 at low
density is I suspect reported as an 8200 - so we would think that that
is all we can ask of it. WE would know that it is capable of high
density only if it was already at high density. I guess there would
be some advantage in detecting compression and turning it off. But I
do not see how we can identify the device enough to try to force
densities.
Eric
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