Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 09:35:43 -0500 (EST) From: Ed Kern <dag@dag.net> To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Mike Andrews <mandrews@termfrost.org> Subject: Re: Sony SDT-5000 hardware compression? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9810280932440.3586-100000@zappa.dag.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9810272322520.20447-100000@mindcrime.termfrost.org>
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On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, Mike Andrews wrote: > I'm having problems making hardware compression work on a Sony SDT-5000 > tape drive, which is supposed to be a DDS-2 drive. 90 meter tapes are > filling up at the 2 gig mark -- I should be able to get at least 3 or so > per tape, since the data I'm backing up is pretty compressible. I've > tried the obvious: Hi. We're running a Sony SDT-7000 DDS-2 tape drive, which (if I recall correctly) is the same drive, but with a faster transport. In our drive, we use 120 meter DDS-2 tapes, and we get 4 gigs uncompressed, and 8 compressed (about 6 gigs in real-world use) using Amanda (and software compression, rather than hardware compression). This doesn't really answer your question, but it might be helpful. Cheers, Ed. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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