Re: DLT 7000 tapetype (fwd)

Subject:	Re: DLT 7000 tapetype (fwd)
From:	Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 AT duke DOT edu>
To:	Terri Eads <eads AT rap.ucar DOT edu>
Date:	Wed, 5 Mar 2003 12:47:24 -0500 (EST)

On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 at 9:38am, Terri Eads wrote

> So I think I'll use that one. I may rerun it with the hardware
> compression off to see what that does, but it looks like amtapetype
> is giving better results.

amtapetype=tapetype -- it just got renamed.

And you *never* want to run (am)tapetype with hardware compression.  
(am)tapetype uses /dev/random (or equivalent) as a data source, and random 
data does not compress.

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

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