>A DDS-3 tape should hold 12GB, compressed, right? ...
I thought DDS-3 was 12 native and 24 compressed.
>It looks like "taper" dies after 10GB. ...
Correct.
>Does the TAPE-ERROR/short write mean the tape is bad? ...
It means taper got an error. That, in turn, might mean any number of
things are bad (tape, drive, cleaning, cables, distance to the nearest
candy machine, etc).
You don't, by any chance, have both hardware and software compression
turned on, do you? Double compressing things often makes them expand,
i.e. you don't even get the native capacity, and might explain what
you're seeing.
>How accurate is the size specification of the tape?
Which size specification? If you mean the one from taper, it's very
accurate (to the KByte).
If you mean the one from the manufacturer, well, let's just say a lot
of those folks won't ever have an employment problem as long as there
are cars (or snake oil :-).
>Drew
John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
