On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 08:34:41AM +0300, Alexander Belik wrote:
> On 17 May 2002, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
>
> > >>>>> "BH" == Brook Hurd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > BH> I am about to use the following tape type: HP C5708A DDS-3 Data
> > BH> Cartridge, 24GB
> > I've used:
> > define tapetype DDS-3 {
> > comment "DDS-3 DAT drive"
> > length 12288 mbytes # 12 GB
> >>>>>>> filemark 0 kbytes
> > speed 850 kbytes
> > }
>
> "filemark 0 kbytes" What is this?
You didn't like the explanation I sent to you?
> Tapetype measures the native capacity and will probably tell you something
> like 11.6 GB with a filemark of 0, maybe 16KB. You ask later what the
> latter is, it is wasted space (wasted to us) between files on the tape.
> Each disklist entry is put on tape as one file. Some tape drives have
> large filemarks. So a lot of disklist entries can eat lots of tape.
> Not so with most modern drives.
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