>This drive is supposed to write 66gb with hardware compression.
>This config only reflects "length 30609 mbytes" about half of that.
Which is pretty close to correct, then. Manufactures reports twice the
"native" density when giving the number for compression.
>I ran the tapetype utility with hardware compression turned on and got
>some differnt results.
Don't do that. Tapetype deliberately generates random data to defeat
hardware compression.
>- how do I take advantage of hardware compression?
You fudge the length up from what you think it will do native based
on the amount of compression you expect to get. And here's a tip --
**nobody** gets double :-). I typically see 20-35%.
>brad
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