On Wed, 8 Aug 2007, Rory Beaton wrote:
> Someone was asking for this recently and the FAQ threw a tantrum when I tried 
> to add it.
> 
> Anyway...this is the output of amatapetype for a Hewlett Packard DAT 160 USB 
> that we recently acquired. 
> Is it common to see a zero length filemark value?
> 
> 
> define tapetype HP_DAT160 {
>     comment "HP DAT 160 USB (hardware compression on)"

-EHARDWARE_COMPRESSION_ON

>     length 65535 mbytes

And that's why only 64 GiB fit on your fancy DAT160 tape...

>     filemark 0 kbytes
>     speed 5319 kps
> }

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                                                Geert

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