On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Terri Eads wrote:

> I ran the tapetype program from 2.4.3 on a DLT 7000
> drive in an Overland MiniLibrary Xpress and got the
> following:
>
> define tapetype DLT7000 {
>     comment "just produced by tapetype program"
>     length 29668 mbytes
>     filemark 0 kbytes
>     speed 1700 kps
>
> The "filemark 0 kbytes" just doesn't look right to me.
> Does anyone else have something else for a DLT7000?

Looks normal from here.  I use the following:

define tapetype Tandberg-DLT-7000 {
    comment "Tandberg DLT 7000 on QLogic UltraWide SCSI on Origin200"
    length 50000 mbytes
    filemark 0 kbytes
    speed 4680 kbytes
}

The only thing that I changed from what tapteype (2.4.1p1) generated for
me is the length.  I originally ran tapetype against the drive without
using hardware compression.  I came up with 50GB for hardware compressed
after setting it to 70GB and watching where it typically ran out of tape
and then setting it a couple GB low just for breathing room (it's still
not perfect, the compression ratio is variable depending on data of
course).  I should probably rerun tapteype, but it took over a week the
first time and I can't have the drive offline that long.  And this works.

Jamie Bowden

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