Amanda-Users

Re: Tape mark error on LTO drive/tapes

2003-03-05 11:23:15
Subject: Re: Tape mark error on LTO drive/tapes
From: Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 AT duke DOT edu>
To: Brian Cuttler <brian AT wadsworth DOT org>
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 09:58:51 -0500 (EST)
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 at 9:23am, Brian Cuttler wrote

> From discussions on the list last week "I'd understood"* that
> the tape length and I assume** by extension the filemark size
> are used only to estimate tape capacity and determine what needs
> to be bumped or if a level zero could be advanced.

Yes.

> What is the speed value used for ?

Nothing.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University