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- From: hens@snipe.cray.com (Tom Stephens)
- Subject: Re: Need values for 5Gb exabyte
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.095950.23886@walter.cray.com>
- Sender: hens@snipe (Tom Stephens)
- Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
- References: <1992Jul30.204913.1952@iex.uucp> <1992Jul31.125932.23914@fripp.ri.cadre.com>
- Date: 31 Jul 92 09:59:50 CDT
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- In article <1992Jul31.125932.23914@fripp.ri.cadre.com>, jh@cadre.com (Joe Hartley) writes:
- > In article 1952@iex.uucp, danny@iex.UUCP (Danny Shaw) writes:
- > >I have a script that calculates the amount of data that will
- > >fit on a 2Gb exabyte using the following factors.
- > >
- > ># Values for 2Gb exabyte
- > >BLOCKSIZE=126 # Blocking factor
- > >KB=2048000 # Tape capacity in K-bytes
- > >KB_TO_FEET=341 # Kbytes to tape feet conversion factor
- > >LOGICAL_BPI=54000 # Tape "logical" density
- > >
- > >
- > >I was wondering if someone knows the values for the 5Gb exabyte drive.
- > >
- > I just set up an EXB-8500 on an ELC running SunOS 4.1.1. When I called Exabyte
- > to get the parameters for my dump scripts, they said all I had to do was
- > double the density value so instead of 54000, I now use 108000. Sounds like
- > this is your fix as well.
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- According to Sun you need to dump to a different device too. Add 8 to the device you used
- before.
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- Tom
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