Not so sure about this. I had a Travan-4 tape whizzing away for 24 hours. 
Now, I've had full tapes before, and the dump time... lemme pull out the 
reports:

Output Size (meg)        3863.3     3829.7       33.6
...
Tape Time (hrs:min)        2:15       2:05       0:10
Tape Size (meg)          3864.1     3830.0       34.1
Tape Used (%)             101.7      100.8        0.9   (level:#disks ...)

So for a tapetype run it should take 4h30... Give it 5 hours. 

I gave up on it and went to the FAQO.

..Brian

On Thu 12 Sep 02 17:15, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Thursday 12 September 2002 10:48, Mozzi wrote:
> >Hi
> >
> >Watch out for tapetype!!!
> >I have a Tandberg VS80 DLT 40/80 Gig drive
> >I gave it the command #./tapetype -e 40960 -f /dev/nst0 -t
> > TandbergVS80
> >
> >It has been going for 26 hours now,and no end in sight.
> >
> >
> >Mozzi
>
> It will get done at some point.  It has to write the tape completely
> full twice, and a slow writing big tape will take a while.

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