On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 02:35:54AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> assumption on my part is wrong. When and if you re-run tapetype
> again, leave out or change the -e option and see if that effects
> the filemark value returned. But it will take longer to run
> without the -e option IIRC.
As suggested, I have re-run tapetype on the drive, leaving out the -e
[estimate] argument:
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$ time sudo -u backup tapetype -f /dev/tape -t DDS2-120m-no-estimate \
&& echo Ok.
wrote 120009 32Kb blocks in 367 files in 12166 seconds (short write)
wrote 119968 32Kb blocks in 736 files in 13385 seconds (short write)
define tapetype DDS2-120m-no-estimate {
comment "just produced by tapetype program"
length 3751 mbytes
filemark 3 kbytes
speed 301 kps
}
real 428m24.768s
user 0m2.700s
sys 4m15.500s
Ok.
$
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Both the length and speed values are somewhat lower than before, but the
most significant difference is in the filemark value, which looks much
more reasonable now.
Greetings,
Martin.
