On Feb 18, 2008, at 1:01 PM, Tom Allison wrote:

> Way back when I had some tape drives. At that time Linux could not
> provide compression on tape drives. Especially if you where trying to
> write across multiple tapes.
>
> Is this still true?
>
> So if I'm looking at a tape drive that says it is an 80/204GB type, I
> should use 80GB for my calculations?

Compression is a hardware issue.  It is not done by the OS.

What calculations?

>
> Sent from my iPhone.

Please, this is not the place for complaints.  :)


-- 
Dan Langille -- http://www.langille.org/
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