On Tue, 6 May 2008, Nigel Allen wrote:
> I'm experiencing an odd problem with a USB DAT drive that keeps running out of
> space. Apologies for the length of the post.
> 
> The drive is supposed to be 36 / 72 GB.

GB or GiB?

> >                           Total       Full      Incr.
> >                         --------   --------   --------
> > Estimate Time (hrs:min)    0:04
> > Run Time (hrs:min)        14:44
> > Dump Time (hrs:min)       11:22      11:22       0:00
> > Output Size (meg)       33927.1    33927.1        0.0

These are in KiB.

> > Original Size (meg)     50710.1    50710.0        0.0

Do you have hardware compression enabled on the drive?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                                                Geert

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