On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 03:48:30PM -0500, Eric Sproul wrote: > On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 13:56, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > Because something is wrong or you have a very old version of tapetype. > > > > Your drive specs will include a speed rating, in MB/sec probably. > > Divide that into your tape's rated capacity to get an approximation > > of how long it will take to write a complete tape. Tapetype should > > take about twice as long as it makes 2 passes. > > > > Be sure in your calculation that you use matching speed and capacity > > numbers. Matching in the sense of both refering to HW compression on > > or both refering to HW compression off. > > Jon, > I am using the tapetype that came with 2.4.2p2 (from the Debian > package).
That is what I said. > > Because .................. or you have a very old version of tapetype. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
