VXA Tape V17

[Bradley Glonka]

Anyone using Ecrix VXA V17 tapes?
I found this config in the faq-omatic
I have a question:
This drive is supposed to write 66gb with hardware compression.
This config only reflects "length 30609 mbytes" about half of that.

define tapetype VXA {
            comment "Ecrix VXA-1 V17"
            length 30609 mbytes
            filemark 2141 kbytes
            speed 2892 kbytes
}


I ran the tapetype utility with hardware compression turned on and got
some differnt results.


define tapetype VXA {
            comment "Ecrix VXA-1 V17"
            length 27379 mbytes
            filemark 8872 kbytes
            speed 2540 kbytes
}

- how do I take advantage of hardware compression?
- Is the large differnce in filemarks a problem?


Thanks
brad