> also, i don't seemed to be able to utilize the whole tape, the estimated
> full capacity is 35G but it got marked full somewhere around 30G. my
> devclass of dlt's definition is -format=drive.

Hi All,

     I had DLT7000's once, and while talking to the Quantum Engineers
while we watched ADSM use the drives, he commented on the start/stop
nature of ADSM's I/O to the drive.  He told me that the drives are
optimized for data streaming, and that they would automatically fall out
of compression mode to try to stream the data.  I was also told that you
could change this behavior, and force compression to be on all the time.
I had planned to do that, as I was only seeing native capacities, but I
replaced the drives with 3570's before I could look into it further.

Steve (unVMix Systems Programmer/Dude) Roder
(tkssteve AT ubvm.cc.buffalo DOT edu | tkssteve AT acsu.buffalo DOT edu | 
(716)645-3564 ,
   | http://ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu/~tkssteve)