On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 02:28:31PM -0700, Bill Wagner wrote:
> I've run 'tapetype' to generate a new definition for my Compaq
> Storageworks SSL2020 / Overland AIT LibraryPro and wanted to share my
> findings.  It ran for more than four hours, so hopefully this is accurate:
> 
> wrote 7208 32Kb blocks in 1 file
> wrote 1391144 32Kb blocks in 193 files in 7997 seconds (short write)
> wrote 1394748 32Kb blocks in 387 files in 7998 seconds (short write)
> define tapetype AIT-2 {
>     comment "just produced by tapetype program"
>     length 43529 mbytes
>     filemark 0 kbytes
>     speed 5573 kps
> }
> 
> I ran this against /dev/st0 (Linux) but someone gave me an example using
> the non-rewinding device file.  Does it matter against which it was run?

What were you expecting to be the "uncompressed" capacity.
About 44 or 45GB?  If not, but something like 50 or 60GB,
you may have incorrectly run tapetype with hardware
compression turned on.  It should be off.

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