i have an 8200, and i seem to remember 2.5/5, not sure though, haven't used it in like 2 years... nick On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Philip C Mendelsohn wrote: > On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Bob Tanner wrote: > > > Running Sparc Linux with a Exabyte 8mm Tape drive using 160mXL 8mm tapes. > > > > I think I am going insane, but I thought 8mm did 12/24Gb. Yet, I am able only > > to get around 2Gb on the tape before it gives me a write error. > > > > Just wanted to make sure my capacity is right on the tapes before I look else > > where. > > Depends on the drive, but that's *way* higher than what I would expect. > > I have an Exabyte 8500C, which is rated for 5GB uncompressed, 10GB with > the hardware compression. (It's older, but it's a rock.) > > I don't recall if that was 160m tapes or not, but the difference for tape > length is linear, so that doesn't explain it. > > 2GB is pretty shabby though. > > There are lots of annoying problems that could account for it -- bad > tapes, dirty machines, yada, yada. I have a fair amount of insight into > the behavior of tapes and heads which I won't burden you with now :) > > I don't want to start a "I swear by brand X, but brand Y > stinks" discussion, but I have some data on error rates, bad tapes > received, and recoverability after time that suggests that the 3M / > Imation 8mm tapes really do outperform a couple of other brands. > > *I'm not claiming they beat everyone else's tape.* > > Nutshell: Your numbers probably aren't right, but your tape is *almost* > certainly not doing what it's supposed to, IMHO. > > Cheers, > Phil M > > -- > Lottery: a tax on people who are bad at math > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org