This one time, at band camp, Ernest Byaruhanga wrote:
>amdtape command has now gone for 30 hours!! is this normal? can someone 
>please send me their configuration in case they are using a similar tape?

I've got an HP Ultrium 1, and use this tapetype:

define tapetype HP-Ultrium {
    comment "HP Ultrium 1-SCSI"
    length 100000 mbytes
    filemark 0 kbytes
    speed 8 mps
}

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