Alexey I. Froloff wrote:
* Alexey I. Froloff <raorn@> [040707 14:10]:
P.S. Right now I figured how to turn HW compression off (with mt utility) and started amtapetype again...
Thanks to all for your help. amtapetype finished successfully.
$ /usr/sbin/amtapetype -e 100g -f /dev/nst0 -t "HP-C7971A" Writing 1024 Mbyte compresseable data: 25 sec Writing 1024 Mbyte uncompresseable data: 72 sec WARNING: Tape drive has hardware compression enabled Estimated time to write 2 * 102400 Mbyte: 14400 sec = 4 h 0 min wrote 3244032 32Kb blocks in 99 files in 7310 seconds (short write) wrote 3244032 32Kb blocks in 198 files in 7666 seconds (short write) define tapetype HP-C7971A { comment "just produced by tapetype prog (hardware compression on)" length 101376 mbytes filemark 0 kbytes speed 13871 kps }
Noticed the speed increase when specifying '-e 100g' !
And notice that even with hardware compression on, these drives can put
100 Gbyte on tape, thanks to the intelligent hwcompr algorithm that somehow avoids compressing random data.
I wish I owned one of those drives.
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