Paul,
The -e made a huge difference in runtime.
For what its worth, here is the result I received.
# date ; amtapetype -e 400g -f /dev/rmt/3n ; date
Wed May 24 09:23:58 EDT 2006
Writing 2048 Mbyte compresseable data: 33 sec
Writing 2048 Mbyte uncompresseable data: 33 sec
Estimated time to write 2 * 409600 Mbyte: 912 sec = 0 h 15 min
wrote 12386304 32Kb blocks in 189 files in 6539 seconds (short write)
define tapetype unknown-tapetype {
comment "just produced by tapetype prog (hardware compression off)"
length 386048 mbytes
filemark 0 kbytes
speed 61853 kps
}
Wed May 24 13:01:08 EDT 2006
3 1/2 hours, the previous attempt ran overnight and was not where
near complete.
I really should run it again with HW compresson ON.
On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 10:15:03AM +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote:
> On 2006-05-23 22:22, Pavel Pragin wrote:
> >Brian Cuttler wrote:
> >
> >>Does anyone have the tape type for the LTO3 (Quantum) ?
>
> >Try using this command to determine tapetype:
> >amtapetype -f /dev/nst0 (/dev/nst0) will be diff for solaris i think
>
> When pointing people to this command, please don't forget that they
> should better add the "-e 400g" option too.
>
> Without the -e option the runtime of this command is measured in days
> (maybe weeks for this kind of tapecapacity!!!) instead of 4-8 hours.
>
>
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