I hadn't heard back from anyone with a setting for my
DLTtape IV 40/80 Gb tapes, so I went ahead and ran
tapetype on the system and let it run over night.
The readme mentioned posting my results to the general
mailing list *I THINK* so here's what I got... I'm a
little confused about the results because it doesn't
actually show a full 40 Gb uncompressed space (As you can
see it only show's roughly 30 Gb -- can anyone explain
this?)
[operator@lycan tape-src]$ ./tapetype -f /dev/nst0 -t DLT
wrote 939471 32Kb blocks in 2873 files in 14350 seconds (short write)
wrote 939532 32Kb blocks in 5764 files in 24767 seconds (short write)
define tapetype DLT {
comment "just produced by tapetype program"
length 29359 mbytes
filemark 0 kbytes
speed 1654 kps
}
Any comments would be helpful -- I'm not really keen on the
idea of spending (what I saw another person on this mailing
list say he did) days searching through archives to find the
needle in the haystack. (I respect that persons patience, but
I guess I'm just a product of the X generation -- I would like
the information ASAP)
Joe
