Re: Q: HP C7971A tapetype (Ultrium LTO 1)

2004-07-08 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 08:50:17AM -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > On Thu, 8 Jul 2004 at 8:35am, Gene Heskett wrote > > > On Thursday 08 July 2004 01:32, Alexey I. Froloff wrote: > > >* Alexey I. Froloff [040707 14:10]: > > >> P.S. Right now I figured how to turn HW compression off (with mt >

Re: Q: HP C7971A tapetype (Ultrium LTO 1)

2004-07-08 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 08 July 2004 08:50, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: >On Thu, 8 Jul 2004 at 8:35am, Gene Heskett wrote > >> On Thursday 08 July 2004 01:32, Alexey I. Froloff wrote: >> >* Alexey I. Froloff [040707 14:10]: >> >> P.S. Right now I figured how to turn HW compression off (with >> >> mt utility) a

Re: Q: HP C7971A tapetype (Ultrium LTO 1)

2004-07-08 Thread Tom Brown
> Actually Gene, for this drive disabling hardware compression isn't > necessary. It's an LTO/Ultrium drive, and those are actually smart enough > to not compress already compressed data. Notice (below) how he still gets > the full 100GB native capacity? With those drives, you get the best of >

Re: Q: HP C7971A tapetype (Ultrium LTO 1)

2004-07-08 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Thu, 8 Jul 2004 at 8:35am, Gene Heskett wrote > On Thursday 08 July 2004 01:32, Alexey I. Froloff wrote: > >* Alexey I. Froloff [040707 14:10]: > >> P.S. Right now I figured how to turn HW compression off (with mt > >> utility) and started amtapetype again... > > > >Thanks to all for your help

Re: Q: HP C7971A tapetype (Ultrium LTO 1)

2004-07-08 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 08 July 2004 01:32, Alexey I. Froloff wrote: >* Alexey I. Froloff [040707 14:10]: >> P.S. Right now I figured how to turn HW compression off (with mt >> utility) and started amtapetype again... > >Thanks to all for your help. amtapetype finished successfully. > >$ /usr/sbin/amtapetype

Re: Q: HP C7971A tapetype (Ultrium LTO 1)

2004-07-08 Thread Alexey I. Froloff
* Paul Bijnens [040708 12:18]: > Noticed the speed increase when specifying '-e 100g' ! Yes! > And notice that even with hardware compression on, these drives can put > 100 Gbyte on tape, thanks to the intelligent hwcompr algorithm that > somehow avoids compressing random data. I think it worth

Re: Q: HP C7971A tapetype (Ultrium LTO 1)

2004-07-08 Thread Paul Bijnens
Alexey I. Froloff wrote: * Alexey I. Froloff [040707 14:10]: P.S. Right now I figured how to turn HW compression off (with mt utility) and started amtapetype again... Thanks to all for your help. amtapetype finished successfully. $ /usr/sbin/amtapetype -e 100g -f /dev/nst0 -t "HP-C7971A" Writing

Re: Q: HP C7971A tapetype (Ultrium LTO 1)

2004-07-07 Thread Alexey I. Froloff
* Alexey I. Froloff [040707 14:10]: > P.S. Right now I figured how to turn HW compression off (with mt > utility) and started amtapetype again... Thanks to all for your help. amtapetype finished successfully. $ /usr/sbin/amtapetype -e 100g -f /dev/nst0 -t "HP-C7971A" Writing 1024 Mbyte compres

Re: Q: HP C7971A tapetype (Ultrium LTO 1)

2004-07-07 Thread Paul Bijnens
Alexey I. Froloff wrote: I'm trying to use amanda with HP Storageworks MSI5030 library. It uses C7971A tpaes (100GB/200GB), but I can't find any amanda tapetypes in th Net. So, I ran amtapetype. It was working for about 12 hours with the folloeing results: It runs much faster if you give it a rea

Q: HP C7971A tapetype (Ultrium LTO 1)

2004-07-07 Thread Alexey I. Froloff
Hi! I'm trying to use amanda with HP Storageworks MSI5030 library. It uses C7971A tpaes (100GB/200GB), but I can't find any amanda tapetypes in th Net. So, I ran amtapetype. It was working for about 12 hours with the folloeing results: $ /usr/sbin/amtapetype -f /dev/nst0 -t "HP-C7971A" Writing