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Does Mondo support my tape drive?

April 26, 2017drive mondo support tape

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Does Mondo support my tape drive?

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If your tape drive and its firmware and the kernel-level driver support fopen(), fread(), fwrite() and fclose() – standard C library calls – then yes, Mondo should support it. If not, well, you need a refund. 🙂 Mondo plays nicely with any sane, sensible drives. That’s most of them, by the way. 🙂 If your drive doesn’t play nicely with Mondo then you may try tinkering with setblksize and defblksize using ‘mt’, or tweaking Mondo’s block size by recompiling it with make INTTAPE=4096 or INTTAPE=8192 or something. Other than that, you need a priest or a refund. Also, depending on the tape streamer model, a tape should be inserted in the tape drive before starting mondoarchive, otherwise it may not recognize the drive.