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Date:      Thu, 9 Apr 1998 20:18:29 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com>
To:        scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: compression on Exabyte 8700LT?
Message-ID:  <19980409201829.36529@nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <19980410112408.01873@freebie.lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Fri, Apr 10, 1998 at 11:24:08AM %2B0930
References:  <199804091527.QAA09483@albatross.mcc.ac.uk> <19980410112408.01873@freebie.lemis.com>

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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

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