On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 at 10:59pm, up AT 3 DOT am wrote

Here's the complete report, now that it finally finished:

su-2.05a$ amtapetype -f /dev/nrsa0
Writing 256 Mbyte   compresseable data:  92 sec
Writing 256 Mbyte uncompresseable data:  90 sec
Estimated time to write 2 * 1024 Mbyte: 720 sec = 0 h 12 min
wrote 763218 32Kb blocks in 2334 files in 13153 seconds (short write)
wrote 757298 32Kb blocks in 4646 files in 20125 seconds (short write)
define tapetype unknown-tapetype {
   comment "just produced by tapetype prog (hardware compression off)"
   length 24034 mbytes
   filemark 81 kbytes
   speed 1530 kps
}

Does this mean that this 35GB uncompressed tape is only yeilding 24GB?

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Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University