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In <22341@venera.isi.edu> dstrout@isi.edu (David Strout) writes:
| 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?

More than likely you are getting a media error, rather than
'running out of tape'.  Chances are good that if the tape drive
is old, that it is QIC24 (60 Mbyte), not QIC150; should be
a stamping or label on the drive that identifies it as a
2150S (QIC150) or 2060S (QIC24).  If it is a QIC24, you
shouldn't use 6150 cartridges, you should use 600A, or the
300XL or 450XL cartridges; the coercivity of the tape is
different on the 6150 and 6250's, and won't work well on
the older drives.
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