On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 at 12:06pm, Adolfo Pachón wrote
> I have an HP-COLORADO 8GB (4GB real / 8GB compressed) with scsi emulation
> (/dev/st0).
For Amanda, always use /dev/nst0 -- the non-rewinding tape device.
> For detecting the correct tapetype, What have I put?
>
> A) ./tapetype -e 4g -f /dev/st0 -t hp-colorado
> B) ./tapetype -e 8g -f /dev/st0 -t hp-colorado
>
The first. 4GB is the tape's native capacity. 8GB is an (optimistic)
estimate given by the manufacturer for the compressed capacity. And
that's software compression, since I'm pretty sure those drives don't do
hardware compression. Realistically, you're *never* going to get 8GB
worth of data on one of those tapes.
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
