> I have a Sony SDX-500C and tapetype reported the following:
>
> define tapetype SDX-500C {
> comment "just produced by tapetype program"
> length 21709 mbytes
> filemark 773 kbytes
> speed 3660 kbytes
> }
>
> From the above output tapetype believes that this tape will only hold 21
> Gigs. The tape is an AIT-1 25/50G tape. Is it ok for me to up the
> length? Why does tapetype report at least 4 gigs less then the native
> capacity of the tape.I guess you enabled hardware compression.
