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Further Command Information
For additional information on using tar and a complete list of the
command arguments, refer to the tar man page by typing the follow-
ing:
man tar Enter
You may also communicate with the tape drive with the cpio, ftio,
mt, and fbackup commands. For more information on these com-
mands, enter the following in a terminal window:
man command Enter
Media Interchangeability Restrictions
If you interchange media between DDS-format tape drives, the fol-
lowing two restrictions apply to the media:
•Data cassettes with compressed data can only be read by tape
drives that have data compression capabilities, such as the tape
drive (part number C1504–67201) found in Kit A2275A #AHS.
•Full height (5 1/4-in) DDS-format tape drives (models HP
35470A and HP35480A) can get 1.3 GB and can read or write
to 60-meter data cassettes only, if they are not using data com-
pression. With data compression, these drives can get 2 GB and
can read or write to 90-meter cassettes.
Troubleshooting
If you have trouble with any of these procedures for using your DDS
tape drive, see Chapter 6 of this book, “Solving Problems.”
The man utility looks up
man pages on the sys-
tem.