After all else failed (all mts report DDS), I tried to put some mp3s (that leaves the compression out of question) on a HP DDS3 tape to see how much data it can hold - DDS3 should be 12G uncompressed. After successfull 8G (at block 17297020) there's this: # cat cd.tar cd.tar cd.tar cd.tar >/dev/tape cat: write error: No space left on device st0: Error on write filemark # mt tell At block 20485684 That's 10GB boundary, as the block size is 512b. Well, we'll probably not going to buy/use this drive (could you tell me some vendor/type DDS-3 combination which is known to work under linux?), but if you can think of any explanation for 10G boundary, I'd like to hear it. - jozef :-)
