on Fri, May 11, 2001 at 12:36:50PM +0100, Gavin Hamill (gdh@acentral.co.uk) wrote: > Hi :) > > I've just acquired a HP C1533A tape drive, and whilst I can successfully > tar files back and forth from it, I'm poking in the dark.. > > I'm using 90m DDS-1 tapes, which give an uncompressed capacity of 2Gb with > this drive... but are there any tools to accurately measure both the data > rate and the precise capacity of the drive/tapes? > > I ask this because I have a large amount of (already-compressed) data that > I'd like to span across several tapes, and would like to squeeze as much > as possible onto each tape :) > > Any advice would be greatly appreciated :) Nothing specific that I'm aware of. Note that with hardware compression, tape capacity will vary. I'd check Google for options on spanning systems. I'd be interested in seeing what you find as I've reached a point where my tape capacity is far outstripped by available storage. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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