From owner-freebsd-scsi Thu Apr 9 20:18:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA14216 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Thu, 9 Apr 1998 20:18:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [128.120.56.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA14211 for ; Thu, 9 Apr 1998 20:18:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by relay.nuxi.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id DAA00661; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 03:18:29 GMT Message-ID: <19980409201829.36529@nuxi.com> Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1998 20:18:29 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: compression on Exabyte 8700LT? Reply-To: obrien@NUXI.com References: <199804091527.QAA09483@albatross.mcc.ac.uk> <19980410112408.01873@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88 In-Reply-To: <19980410112408.01873@freebie.lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Fri, Apr 10, 1998 at 11:24:08AM +0930 X-Warning: Mutt Bites! X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.5-STABLE Organization: The NUXI *BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Apr 10, 1998 at 11:24:08AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > I think there's a general problem with tape compression under > -CURRENT. A few months back, I used to be able to back up a complete > 8 GB on my DDS-2 drives, but now I've done some testing and found it > gives up somewhere round 3.4 GB. I don't understand that, since the > native tape capacity is 4 GB. Hum.. I wonder if -STABLE has the same problem. About a month ago my HP 4mm tape could only backup 1.8gig when the native capacity is 2gig and I have backed up 2gig in the past. -- David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message