At 10:06 AM 1/23/98 -0500, Thomas Haddad wrote:
>Ive talked to a few of you about using a 3570 mod B02 tape device. Im running
>Aix 4.2.1 with ADSM 2.1.5.
>Im only getting about 5G on the tape volumes. At about 35% utilization, the
>tape vol becomes full!!! Heres my
>device definition on ADSM. From what I know I should be getting 15G or so on
>each vol??!!
>access=SEQUENTIAL
>devtype=3570
>format=DRIVE
>Estcap=15G (this probably shouldnt be set)
>Anyone using this device on AIX??

We are running 3570/B02's on AIX 4.2, ADSM 3.1.  I have the same device
definition, though we set Estcap low (5GB).  We are getting about 10GB on a
tape, using just the 3570 hardware compression, no client-side compression.
 (Same numbers as we got on ADSM 2.1.6)


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