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Hello Marty, you got to use *FMT7GB, I do it like this and it works. Depending on the structure of data I can sometimes save well over 12GB (compressed) on it ... Regards from germany, Philipp Rusch "Urbanek, Marty" schrieb: > Tape drive question: > > I have a 7208-234. I was my understanding that this drive could write 7GB > (uncompressed) to an 8mm cart by using a density of *FMT5GB with an > extra-long 160m tape cartridge. However, when I tried to use this over the > weekend for a SAVE 21, it got MCH5204, CPF5101 and my save ended > prematurely. These look like a device failure but they are suspiciously > right about the time (in my estimation) where it would have been getting to > the end of that first tape. > > The model 234 has two drives, which I have configured so they function as > two completely independent tape devices. I specify both device names on the > SAVE 21, with the intent being for it to fill one, then switch to the other. > I have done this many times with standard 5GB 112m carts and it worked fine. > This is the first time I needed the extra capacity of the 160m carts, but it > didn't work the way I hoped. > > Thanks in advance. > > -Marty > _______________________________________________ > This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list > To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, > visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/midrange-l > or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@midrange.com > Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives > at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l.
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