hi adsmers, is there anyone out the experienced the same thing: i just noticed that sometimes adsm changes a filling tape to status full even tho' the tape still got plennnnnnnty of room to put data
Author: Russell Street <russells AT AUCKLAND.AC DOT NZ>
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 11:55:38 +1300
Tapes get marked "full" when ADSM hits the end of volume. If you are getting media errors, this could happen prematurely. They are COMPACT IV tapes? It is a DLT 7000 drive? (DLT 4000 are 20GB native,
Hi Russell, yes they are dlt 7000 drives. and no i'm not getting media errors. but maybe i need to clean the drives? i knew i could "format" the media to a higher density. (thx for the detailed proce
Author: Dennis Schaffer <Dennis.Schaffer AT MUTUALOFOMAHA DOT COM>
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 18:33:33 -0600
yu chen, One thing I'd suggest is to do a 'q vol dlt007 f=d' and check out the "Pct. Reclaimable Space" value. If that value is exactly or approximately 35.8, then you probably are getting close to f
A volume gets marked as full when the physical end-of-volume is reached. The Estimated Capacity gets set to the total amount had ADSM put on that volume; in the case of your DLT007 that was 30 GB. Th
hi, y'all made very good points here as i browse through your replies. thanks a lot. i think i can handle the tape density part now. :) yes it is exactly 35.8% reclaimable. right on target! as i'm st
Author: Steven P Roder <tkssteve AT REXX.ACSU.BUFFALO DOT EDU>
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 07:42:22 -0500
Hi All, I had DLT7000's once, and while talking to the Quantum Engineers while we watched ADSM use the drives, he commented on the start/stop nature of ADSM's I/O to the drive. He told me that the d