I'll try that -- felt a little foolish though, because the
reply from Alexandre Oliva about the alternate way to get
to the "faq-o-matic" site answered a lot of questions
I'm having.
Thank you though for your suggestion
Joe
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Gerhard den Hollander wrote:
> * Joseph Del Corso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 11:01:46AM
>-0500)
> > 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?)
>
> As a guess,
> you have compression turned on on your tapedrive ,
> and since tapetype dumps random data to the tape, the data written takes up
> more space than the real data.
>
> Try again with compressionn turned *OFF*.
>
> (Though I have no clue on how to turn compression on or off on a DLT, nor
> do I know how to check for it).
>
> Kind regards,
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