* Alexey I. Froloff <raorn@> [040707 14:10]:
> P.S. Right now I figured how to turn HW compression off (with mt
> utility) and started amtapetype again...
Thanks to all for your help.  amtapetype finished successfully.

$ /usr/sbin/amtapetype -e 100g -f /dev/nst0 -t "HP-C7971A"
Writing 1024 Mbyte   compresseable data:  25 sec
Writing 1024 Mbyte uncompresseable data:  72 sec
WARNING: Tape drive has hardware compression enabled
Estimated time to write 2 * 102400 Mbyte: 14400 sec = 4 h 0 min
wrote 3244032 32Kb blocks in 99 files in 7310 seconds (short write)
wrote 3244032 32Kb blocks in 198 files in 7666 seconds (short write)
define tapetype HP-C7971A {
    comment "just produced by tapetype prog (hardware compression on)"
    length 101376 mbytes
    filemark 0 kbytes
    speed 13871 kps
}

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