Jerry - this is what we see also; the average capacity of full
9840's is 19,366 megs.  We compress everything at the client
so the tape compression can't get any more on than the
native capacity.

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Bill Colwell
Bill Colwell
C. S. Draper Lab
Cambridge, Ma.
bcolwell AT draper DOT com
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In <687154BE6C4ED4118DA10008C7E6D9600AB41391 AT ct01excmb04.thehartford DOT 
com>, on 10/12/01
In <687154BE6C4ED4118DA10008C7E6D9600AB41391 AT ct01excmb04.thehartford DOT 
com>, on 10/12/01
   at 11:04 AM, "Lawson, Jerry W (ETSD, IT)" <jlawson AT THEHARTFORD DOT COM> 
said:

>Date:           October 12, 2001                        Time: 8:21 AM
>From:   Jerry Lawson
>                The Hartford Insurance Group
>860     547-2960                jlawson AT thehartford DOT com
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>Hello -

>I'm posting the following question for a co-worker here that doesn't have
>list access.  I should add that we are compressing the data on the TSM
>client.

>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

>We are implementing 9840 tape technology (in 3590-1 device image format) in
>our TSM environment and have been getting around 19,500 MB's on a cartridge
>when 100% full. I was wondering if this used capacity was typical for this
>type of media?!? Thanks in advance for any help in validating the results
>we've been seeing.



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>                                                     Jerry

>Insanity is doing the same thing over and over....and expecting the results
>to be different - Anon.



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