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- From: jh@cadre.com (Joe Hartley)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
- Subject: Re: Need values for 5Gb exabyte
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.184508.3489@fripp.ri.cadre.com>
- Date: 31 Jul 92 18:45:08 GMT
- Article-I.D.: fripp.1992Jul31.184508.3489
- References: <1992Jul31.095950.23886@walter.cray.com>
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- In article 23886@walter.cray.com, hens@snipe.cray.com (Tom Stephens) writes:
- >
- >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.
- >> ---
- >According to Sun you need to dump to a different device too. Add 8 to the device you used
- >before.
- >
- >
- That's only for SunOS 4.1.2 and above. No direct support is built into
- 4.1.1 and earlier.
-
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