On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 03:48:30PM -0500, Eric Sproul wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 13:56, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> > Because something is wrong or you have a very old version of tapetype.
> > 
> > Your drive specs will include a speed rating, in MB/sec probably.
> > Divide that into your tape's rated capacity to get an approximation
> > of how long it will take to write a complete tape.  Tapetype should
> > take about twice as long as it makes 2 passes.
> > 
> > Be sure in your calculation that you use matching speed and capacity
> > numbers.  Matching in the sense of both refering to HW compression on
> > or both refering to HW compression off.
> 
> Jon,
> I am using the tapetype that came with 2.4.2p2 (from the Debian
> package).

That is what I said.

> > Because .................. or you have a very old version of tapetype.



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