[nflug] hardware question

[Cyber Source]

Robert Meyer wrote:
> What filesystem is on the device?  If it's a windows or MSDOS FS, there may be a limit.  I can't remember what the limit was 'cuz it was a long time ago.   If it's detected as a CDROM, it might be topping out at a gig since a cd can only hold something like 800M
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> Cheers!
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> Bob
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com>
> To: nflug at nflug.org
> Sent: Thursday, February 8, 2007 10:47:39 AM
> Subject: [nflug] hardware question
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> Hello All,
>  I have a hardware question. I recently purchased a scsi IOmega REV
> drive. Have it installed in Ubuntu Edgy. The drive has cartridges that
> hold 35GB natively! I didn't make any fstab entries for it, it just came
> up as /dev/cdrom-1, all was good. However, when doing my backups to it,
> I noticed that the tar files being cron'd to it were stopping at 1GB. I
> poked around in /proc/scsi and seen that the drive does get detected as
> a cdrom, don't know if this is a problem or can be changed. So, instead
> of just created my tar jobs to split the files, I was wondering if this
> behavior/detection can be changed via /etc/fstab. Any Ideas? TIA
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>From the reply to Dave, you'll see it's using UDF, so maybe it is a
limit thinking it's a cd. Do you think I could change this behavior with
fstab or would it need to be done on a udev level?
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