Hmmmm... Are you sure? 99% of my 3590 tapes have >10GB of data on them,
and I have the est/max capacity set at 10GB. Maybe that all depends on
whether or not the drive is allowed to use compression in the device type?
adsm> q dev
Device Device Storage Device Format Est/Max Mount
Class Access Pool Type Capacity Limit
Name Strategy Count (MB)
----- ------ ------- ------- ------ -------- ------
[..etc..]
[..etc..]
TLDS_3590 Sequential 6 3590 3590C 10,240.0 DRIVES
[..etc..]
adsm> q vol
A00073 AIXTAPEBACK TLDS_3590 26,073.2 79.8 Full
A00075 AIXTAPEBACK TLDS_3590 27,110.3 84.5 Full
A00086 TAPEOFFSITE TLDS_3590 23,404.3 56.3 Full
A00087 TAPEOFFSITE TLDS_3590 24,659.2 79.1 Full
A00093 TAPEOFFSITE TLDS_3590 17,589.5 62.3 Full
A00094 TAPEOFFSITE TLDS_3590 25,956.3 72.2 Full
A00095 AIXTAPEBACK TLDS_3590 10,240.0 14.6 Filling
[..etc..]
Thanks,
-Scott
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L. Scott Emmons | CableData R&D Center - El Dorado Hills, CA, USA
Staff Software Engineer| Unix Administration, Systems Development Dept
(916) 939-6088 | Views and content are my own, not CableData's
>-----Original Message-----
>From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU]On Behalf Of
>buser andreas
>Sent: Friday, August 14, 1998 8:10 AM
>To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>Subject: Re: Tape volume usage - Chris
>
>
>Hi Chris,
>
>If your EST-CAPACITY is only defined to 20GB (see DEV-Config) then ADSM
>will only write this amount of DATA on it even if it could write more.
>
>Tip: Define EST-CAPACITY higher than your physical tape capacity. Take
>care if HW-Compression is in effect, the go even higher.
>
>If you controll the EST-CAPACITY full tapes, and yout have your defined
>EST-Capacity reached, then raise this value again.
>
>Kind regards
>Andreas Buser
>
>Tel: ++41 61 285 73 21
>Fax ++41 61 285 70 70
>mail: Andreas.Buser AT Basler DOT ch
>
>Address:
>Basler Versicherungsgesellschaft
>Andreas Buser
>Abt. Informatik
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>
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