Ok, thanks to all of you that replied. I got a few useful things to try,
some of which are detailed below. Mostly, I got confirmation that about
10G is on target for what I should be expecting here. I was also
recommended to check out Exabyte's site for an st.conf entry, which I had
already done. The most intriguing solution was from TED BACKHERMS
<DMVTJB@dmv.state.va.us>, who said:
I use the /dev/rmt/0hbn device with the following st.conf and I
get good use of my tapes in Networker. Can't say about ufsdump,
however.
"EXABYTE EXB-8505", "Exabyte EXB-8705 8mm Eliant 820","EXB-8SC";
EXB-8SC = 1,0x29,0,0xce39,2,0x15,0x8c,1;
This is on a 2.5.1 machine.
I think the 0hbn spec is important, too, to prevent i/o errors
which will cut your capacity under Networker.
This st.conf entry differs from the one Exabyte published on their web
site. The published entry looks like so:
EXB-8SC = 1,0x29,0,0xce39,4,0x15,0x15,0x8c,0x8c,1;
Others suggested that I try 0c as my backup device, which I'll also give a
try.
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Kevin Maher wrote:
> We have several 8705 DX tape drives (8mm) on our Sol 2.x systems here.
> These drives are *supposed* to be 14GB capacity (with compression
> naturally), but I'm not getting anything over 10G max on a tape ever.
> I'm using ufsdump to device /dev/rmt/0h. I'm using a blocking factor of
> 126, which was the only real help I found at sunsolve, and (before
> somebody asks) I am using the 160mXL tapes.
>
> What I'd like to know is if somebody out there has an entry for st.conf
> that will utilize this drive to it's fullest other than what I found at
> the Exabyte web site. If this is the best I can expect, I'd also like to
> know since I may decide to drop this model and go with AIT (Mammoth)
> instead.
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