[comp.unix.ultrix] Need Help with DEC DAT tlz04 unit

mf@arco (Mario Furnari) (01/17/91)

I recently received a DEC TLZ04 unit. I`ll try to use it to do a remote
dump, but after 300Mb it asks me to put another tape.

Please does someone know the tape density registration for this unit ?

I`ll try to enquiry the Italian DEC Support, but after 20 days no answer back
Thank for the assistance

				Mario Furnari


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sudha@cs.uiuc.edu (Sudhakar Yerramareddy) (01/19/91)

In <1014@arco.uucp> mf@arco (Mario Furnari) writes:

>I recently received a DEC TLZ04 unit. I`ll try to use it to do a remote
>dump, but after 300Mb it asks me to put another tape.

>Please does someone know the tape density registration for this unit ?

>I`ll try to enquiry the Italian DEC Support, but after 20 days no answer back
>Thank for the assistance

>				Mario Furnari

I'm also having similar problems.  Could somebody, please, post or mail
the parameters that need to be specified on the command line or elsewhere
that corrects this problem?  

The parameters that it uses currently are:
length :    12000 feet
density:     1600 BPI
block size: 10240 bytes

-- sudhakar
   Beckman Institute
   U. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

ericw@asihub.autosys.com (Eric D. Williams) (01/24/91)

>>I recently received a DEC TLZ04 unit. I`ll try to use it to do a remote
>>dump, but after 300Mb it asks me to put another tape.
>
>>Please does someone know the tape density registration for this unit ?
>
>I'm also having similar problems.  Could somebody, please, post or mail
>the parameters that need to be specified on the command line or elsewhere
>that corrects this problem?  

   I am doing un-attended nightly rdumps to two TLZ04 4mm DAT drives.
   Here are the parameters I use:

     rdump 0sdf 6500 4400000 fig:/dev/rmt0h

   These work from a Vax 3600 and a ds5400, both running Ultrix 4.0.
   The machine the TLZ04 is connected to (a ds3100) is running Ultrix
   4.1.

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