I couldn't find this one in the list archvies, so here it is. I'm using 40GB DLT tapes (according to the label). Despite what the comment produced says, I used the non-compressed device. I didn't give it an estimate for the tapesize.
Writing 256 Mbyte compresseable data: 34 sec Writing 256 Mbyte uncompresseable data: 105 sec WARNING: Tape drive has hardware compression enabled Estimated time to write 2 * 1024 Mbyte: 840 sec = 0 h 14 min wrote 1102644 32Kb blocks in 3372 files in 21817 seconds (short write) wrote 1101228 32Kb blocks in 6756 files in 29828 seconds (short write) define tapetype HP-DLT1e { comment "just produced by tapetype prog (hardware compression on)" length 34499 mbytes filemark 13 kbytes speed 1399 kps } ---- Ean Kingston ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Analyst Kanetix Ltd. (www.kanetix.com) Phone: (416) 599-9779 x216