On Thursday 06 November 2003 02:55, Reza Iskandar Achmad wrote:
>for about 3-5 hours I have generate tapetype definition for my HP
>SureStore DAT8.
>it may be some people out there that use same product that I use,
> you can use this without need waste your time to run ./tapetype
> again.
>
>:)
>
>define tapetype SURESTORE-DAT8 {
>    comment "HP SureStore DAT8"
>    length 3284 mbytes
>    filemark 48 kbytes
>    speed 378 kps
>}
>
This isn't all that usefull Reza, its evident that the hardware 
compression this drive can do is turned on.  Amtapetype and tapetype 
use data from /dev/urandom and overpower the hardware compression 
chips to the point of making the data bigger on the tape than it was 
from /dev/urandom, by about the amount you see here.  That DDS2 tape 
should hold quite close to 4Gb when the compression is turned off.
>
>Reza Iskandar Achmad

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