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- From: vulture@imperial.ac.uk (Thomas Sippel - Dau)
- Subject: Re: What is the capacity of a standard 9track tape
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.191826.14285@cc.ic.ac.uk>
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- References: <1992Dec10.163114.8149@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> <Bz21su.4H9@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <EJH.92Dec10181518@khonshu.colorado.edu> <Bz3J6x.E07@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 19:18:25 GMT
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- In article <Bz3J6x.E07@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, ejk@ux2.cso.uiuc.edu (Ed Kubaitis - CCSO) writes (on bytes and gaps):
- -
- - Bzzzt! Even a rough first order estimate needs to take block size into
- - account. Here are nominal capacities for a 2400' 6250 tape in megabytes
- - for various block sizes (in bytes):
- -
- - |Blksz MBytes
- - | 80 7
- - | 800 53
- - | 2000 92
- - | 4000 122
- - | 8000 145
- - |16000 161
- - |32000 170
- - |64000 174
- -
- - Attached is the perl script that generated the table.
- -
- - ----------------------------------
- - Ed Kubaitis (ejk@ux2.cso.uiuc.edu)
- - Computing & Communications Services Office - University of Illinois, Urbana
- - ================================================================================
- - #! /usr/bin/perl
- - print "Blksz MBytes\n";
- - for $blksize((80, 800, 2000, 4000, 8000, 16000, 32000, 64000)) {
- - $cap = $blksize*(2400*12/(($blksize/6250)+.3));
- - printf("%5d %3d\n", $blksize, $cap/1e6);
- - }
-
- How about enhancing this script to allow for:
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- o other densities (31.5 and 63 bit/mm (or 800, 1600 whatsits))
- o different interblock gap size in these formats
- o tape mark (file mark) size
- o number of label blocks per file (varies across systems and file formats)
- o number of bytes wasted in the file (strip trainling space in text files)
- o number of useless bytes introduced by the file format (line images, say)
-
- We'd like to be sure ...
-
- Thomas
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