Mine will consistenly write in the area of 44000000kb , the most so far this year on one tape was 47896576kb.
----------------------------------------------------- toby bluhm philips medical systems, cleveland ohio [EMAIL PROTECTED] 440-483-5323 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 08/18/2005 08:01:09 AM: > I've been meaning to ask about this for a long time: > > Does anyone here use AIT2 tapes, a.k.a. SDX-50C, for Amanda backup? What > tape length are you using? > > Please note that I'm not asking for the tapetype entry from the > amanda.org archives, as it does not seem quite correct. I mean, the tape > size is specified as 50Gb, and that's more or less what the "length" > parameter in entry says, but it seems to me that it isn't actually > possible to write that much data to these tapes. The maximum seems to be > closer to 40Gb, actually. > > OK, I might run amtapetype, but I'm lazy... And I'm also curious about > other people's experience with this tapes. For instance, can anyone > actually write as much as 50Gb? > > - Toralf >
