Also Sprach 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
>
In the www.ecrix.com site under tech support there are
utils for Linux, Solaris, and Windows to manipulate the
tape drive settings. I set favor capcity over speed and
turned compression on but because my data is a mix of
compressible and non-compressible I don't get more than
about 40GB per tape.
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