Low capacity on Viper SCSI tape drives

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From: David Strout
Date: Sat, 05 Sep 1992 00:44

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I have an old Sun3 shoebox (external case w/ 312MB scsi drive and a
Viper SCSI tape unit) hooked to a color slab.  My thought had been to
use the tape for backup.  I run a little program to do a MTIOCFIXBLK
to set the block size on /dev/nrst0 to 512 bytes.  Then, when I do a
tar cvf - . > /dev/nrst0, I run out of tape after about 7.5 MB.  This
is with a DC6150 cartrige.  What else to I need to do to get the
per-tape capacity up to the 100-150MB range where it belongs?

Thanks,

dave.

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From: dstrout@isi.edu (David Strout)
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Subject: Low capacity on Viper SCSI tape drives
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