Mine will consistenly write in the area of 44000000kb , the most so far 
this year on one tape was 47896576kb.


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toby bluhm
philips medical systems, cleveland ohio
tobias.bluhm AT philips DOT com
440-483-5323

owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org wrote on 08/18/2005 08:01:09 AM:

> I've been meaning to ask about this for a long time:
> 
> Does anyone here use AIT2 tapes, a.k.a. SDX-50C, for Amanda backup? What 

> tape length are you using?
> 
> Please note that I'm not asking for the tapetype entry from the 
> amanda.org archives, as it does not seem quite correct. I mean, the tape 

> size is specified as 50Gb, and that's more or less what the "length" 
> parameter in entry says, but it seems to me that it isn't actually 
> possible to write that much data to these tapes. The maximum seems to be 

> closer to 40Gb, actually.
> 
> OK, I might run amtapetype, but I'm lazy... And I'm also curious about 
> other people's experience with this tapes. For instance, can anyone 
> actually write as much as 50Gb?
> 
> - Toralf
>