OT: REV iomega backupedge

[Enrique Arredondo]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jean-Pierre A. Radley" <appl at jpr.com>
To: "FilePro Mailing List" <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 3:23 PM
Subject: Re: OT: REV iomega backupedge


> Enrique Arredondo propounded (on Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 03:12:27PM -0800):
> | I'm putting a new backup tape called the IOMEGA REV (35Gb/90Gb) $375 on 
> a
> | linux box , upgrading from a seagate tranvan 10/20gb, I finally make it
> | being recognized by the linux box and the edgebackup, Do you know what
> | settings should I put on the device ?
>
> It's NOT a tape.  It's a hard drive.
>
> | - General Resource Information
> | -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> | Resource Type       DVD
> | Resource Name       [rev0              ] Change as appropriate
> | Description         [Iomega RRD 74.B             ]
> | Changer Assoc       [Standalone Device]
> | Interface           [SCSI       ]
> |
> | - DVD / DVD-R / DVD-RAM Information
> | -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> | Data Node           [/dev/scd1                   ]
> | Mount Device Node   [/dev/scd1                   ]
> | Record Buffer (K)   [2048                        ] [16]x Speed
> | Needs Eject?        [ ]
> | Writable Media:     REV
> |
> | - Default Backup Properties
> | -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> | Volume Size (K)     [4472832                     ] [S] Compression
> | Edge Block Size     [64                          ] [Y] Double Buffering
> | [Next]                                                     [Prev]
> | [Cancel]
> |
> | ?
> |
> | Volume should be 30000000 or 90000000 with compression ?
>
> Change nothing.  Microlite's default for the REV drive are correct.
>
> -- 
> JP

But the "4,472,832" don't looks to low to me (it's just 4.4 Gigabyte) , If 
it's a 35 / 90 gigabyte disc it should say at least "35,000,000 Kbytes" , 
Don't you think ?