On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 12:48:06PM +0100, Rory Beaton wrote: > Quoting Jon LaBadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 02:28:10PM +0100, Rory Beaton wrote: > > > > > > grunt:/usr/sbin # amtapetype -o -e 80g -f /dev/nst0 > > > Writing 512 Mbyte compresseable data: 94 sec > > > Writing 512 Mbyte uncompresseable data: 82 sec > > > Estimated time to write 2 * 81920 Mbyte: 26240 sec = 7 h 17 min > > > wrote 2490330 32Kb blocks in 95 files in 12562 seconds (short write) > > > wrote 2477223 32Kb blocks in 189 files in 12784 seconds (short write) > > > define tapetype unknown-tapetype { > > > comment "just produced by tapetype prog (hardware compression off)" > > > length 78236 mbytes > > > filemark 4461 kbytes > > > speed 6272 kps > > > } > > > > > > > DAT tapetype reports have varied as to whether there was any > > filemark at all. I don't know why. My own testing on two > > HP DATs (dds2 & dds3) showed no filemarks. > > > > You might do another tapetype run to check if it is consistant. > > > grunt:/usr/sbin # amtapetype -o -f /dev/nst0 > Writing 512 Mbyte compresseable data: 83 sec > Writing 512 Mbyte uncompresseable data: 83 sec > Estimated time to write 2 * 1024 Mbyte: 332 sec = 0 h 5 min > wrote 2437131 32Kb blocks in 7453 files in 28358 seconds (short write) > wrote 2096995 32Kb blocks in 12865 files in 40050 seconds (short write) > define tapetype unknown-tapetype { > comment "just produced by tapetype prog (hardware compression off)" > length 90796 mbytes > filemark 2011 kbytes > speed 2212 kps > }
You skipped the -e option so amtapetype defaulted to a very small estimated capacity and wrote lots of small files. It probably was not streaming very well. jl -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)