Re: Maximum Capacity Feature

2014-01-03 Thread Mike Wood
Well, no prizes to Oracle for document clarity. A better description is here http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19772-01/TM0002revEF/TM0002revEF.pdf in an older document. I would assume the technique required is the same for T1C T1D drives as well. The application (for example hsm or similar)

Re: Maximum Capacity Feature

2014-01-02 Thread Mike Wood
Radoslaw, Try here http://www.oracle.com/us/products/servers-storage/storage/clipper-t1d-2009307.pdf It says that the feature ensures that cartridges written by an older drive, such as T1C can be rewritten to maximum capacity on a T1D for example. I dont think they word it very

Re: Maximum Capacity Feature

2014-01-01 Thread R.S.
Yes, both numbers apply to uncompressed capacity. However the difference between 8.0 and 8.5 comes from the Maximum Capacity Feature. In my understanding (I've just read about it a little) the feature is resignation of some buffers which allows to fill more data on the cart. As far as I

Re: Maximum Capacity Feature

2013-12-31 Thread Ken Porowski
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Maximum Capacity Feature

2013-12-30 Thread R.S.
I'm just reading about STK/Sun/Oracle tape drives. The latest T1D drive has uncompressed capacity 8TB, but with Maximum Capacity Feaure it's 8,5TB. I can't imagine what the feature is, physically. And why it's not always-enabled? Any clue? Happy EOY'13 -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz,

Re: Maximum Capacity Feature

2013-12-30 Thread Mike Schwab
http://www.oracle.com/us/products/servers-storage/storage/tape-storage/t1-data-cartridges/overview/index.html 8.5 TB maximum capacity. I assume that includes any built in compression. 2013/12/30 R.S. r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl: I'm just reading about STK/Sun/Oracle tape drives. The