Re: planner question
2003-04-30 10:51:19
On 30 Apr 2003 at 10:33am, Eric Sproul wrote
> define tapetype Python-DDS2 {
> comment "ARCHIVE Python with DDS2 tape"
> length 3860 mbytes
> filemark 16 kbytes
> speed 707 kps
> }
>
> 3860 MB/1024 = 3952640 KB
*snip*
> taper: tape small07 kb 3896224 fm 15 writing file: No space left on
> device
>
> So it tells me that when AMANDA hit that EOT, she was already beyond the
> limit defined in the tapetype. Why was she doing that? I'm interested
> to know if I need to tweak the tapetype a little more.
Nope. By your calcs, EOT was hit before the length of your tapetype. You
may want to crank that down a bit.
> On a related note: Does anyone know whether native tape capacities are
> advertised the way hard drives are (where 1GB = 1000 MB instead of 1024
> MB). Although even if this were the case, I'd still expect to get
Of course they are -- it sounds better. My AIT3 drives (100 marketing GB
native) hit EOT reliably at about 98500000 KB.
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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