Tape Drive on Piemonte

The external tape drive on Piemonte takes DDS-3 DAT tapes. These tapes hold about 12GB without compression.

The device name is /dev/rmt/0 .

There is a cleaning tape that should be run periodically, say every 20 tapes or so. Just put the cleaning tape in, and the drive will clean itself and eject the tape. No software commands are needed.

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Last Revised: 17 May 2002
Michael Glass