I can't seem to get tapetype to agree to the rated capacity of my Powervault 120T (DLT 7000 35G native).
The maximum uncompresses that tapetype registers is about 27G.
Running 'mt status' returns a density code for 35G.
Any ideas why I can't detect the full tape?
Here's the output from tapetype.
Writing 128 Mbyte compresseable data: 28 sec Writing 128 Mbyte uncompresseable data: 28 sec Estimated time to write 2 * 1024 Mbyte: 448 sec = 0 h 7 min wrote 860664 32Kb blocks in 2632 files in 24789 seconds (short write) wrote 855261 32Kb blocks in 5247 files in 33707 seconds (short write) define tapetype unknown-tapetype { comment "just produced by tapetype prog (hardware compression off)" length 27065 mbytes filemark 66 kbytes speed 961 kps }
Not the faintest idea. I would believe amtapetype to be correct for your current setup. Maybe you have to fiddle with some setting? Or do you have the correct media inserted that has 35 Gb (some manufacturers supply different tapes that just differ in length, hence the capacity difference). But 27 Gbyte is really a weird number.
While tuning/testing know that it runs *much* *much* faster if you give amtapetype a realistic estimate, like stated in the manpage.
amtapetype -e 35g ...
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