Re: sorry a bit off topic but please help

[Wolfgang Weisselberg]

Hi!

Trying to kill the keyboard, [EMAIL PROTECTED] produced:
> drive.  It does perform hardware compression.  Using a 120M tape, you
> should get around 6.5GB per tape (2:1 is a myth!).  Using a 90M tape

While 2:1 surely is a myth and not to be relied on, I often
get about that ratio.  But then I have not much incompressible
data around, quite to the contrary ...

Always calculate with a good margin of error, always assume
the tape is a bit shorter ...

-Wolfgang