From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Oct 28 06:37:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA05314 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 06:37:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from plains.NoDak.edu (plains.NoDak.edu [134.129.111.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA05309 for ; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 06:37:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu) Received: (from tinguely@localhost) by plains.NoDak.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA23620; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 08:36:33 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 08:36:33 -0600 (CST) From: Mark Tinguely Message-Id: <199810281436.IAA23620@plains.NoDak.edu> To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, mandrews@termfrost.org Subject: Re: Sony SDT-5000 hardware compression? Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org we have a SONY SDT-5000 tape drive and use DDS-2 (120m) tapes. on level 0 dumps we can backup approxiamtely 7-8GB/tape. is the 2GB limit you are seeing, one large partition or several small backups to the same tape? each backup to tape goes in a seperate tape "file" and the tape uses a big gap between each tape file that will lower the maximum that can be stored on the tape. is data continuing to arrive for the tape so that the tape is capable to keep streaming? --mark. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message