OT: REV iomega backupedge

[Brian K. White]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Enrique Arredondo" <henry at vegena.net>
To: "FilePro Mailing List" <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 10:27 AM
Subject: Re: OT: REV iomega backupedge

> ----- 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 ?

Do you have a dvd drive on this box as well as a rev drive, or just the rev 
drive?
If the cdrom drive is neither a dvd reader or burner, then it doesn't count.
Maybe it's detecting the wrong device.

It does look like it's detected the right drive, else it wouldn't think it's 
a rev drive by name, and yet it does look like it's filled in a standard 
volume size for dvd (4.7g minus formatting overhead), but, try writing to 
it. How far does it actually go? Forget what the volume size says, maybe 
it's not a meaningful field and maybe it writes until it hits end of media.

I have one rev drive in use with BE but it's on a sco box not linux, and I 
have BE on one linux box but it's using a dvd drive not a rev drive. 
Checking... On the SCO box with BE and a REV drive, the volume size is 0. 
The other settings are all exactly the same.

Brian K. White  --  brian at aljex.com  --  http://www.aljex.com/bkw/
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