On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 11:10:12PM -0500, Michael J. Pawlowsky wrote:
>
> This is what I got from tapetype... after 8 hours!
That is how long it takes your drive, at near optimum speed,
to twice write 19.5GB. If it is too slow, get a faster drive.
> Is it ok to have filemark 0 kbytes?
Some formats keep the control data on a separate track and
so waste no space between files for searchable marks.
>
> ]# tapetype -e 20480m -f /dev/nst0
> wrote 622535 32Kb blocks in 95 files in 14145 seconds (short write)
> wrote 625716 32Kb blocks in 191 files in 14295 seconds (short write)
> define tapetype HP-DLT-40i {
> comment "just produced by tapetype program"
> length 19503 mbytes
> filemark 0 kbytes
> speed 1404 kps
> }
>
>
> It seems to be working.. doing first backup now.. will try restore tomorrow morning.
Let us know the results.
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