OT: REV iomega backupedge

[Bill Vermillion]

On Thu, Feb 10 07:27 , Enrique Arredondo, showing utter disregard for 
spell-checkers gave us this: 

> 
> ----- 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.

And do you have the latest version os the software. ????


> >| - 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 ?                  

That't the size of a DVD - which is shown as the type in the first
screen display you showed.

BackupEdge 02.00.02 build 2 is noted as it supports the REV.
Is that the version of SW you are running?

If so just change the size.   Remember the 35GB native is
spec'ed in driver manufacture size notation with 1GB being 1
BILLION  bytes not the standard computer GB of 1,073,741,824 bytes.

You are free to change the size.

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Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com