Hi :) I've just acquired a HP C1533A tape drive, and whilst I can successfully tar files back and forth from it, I'm poking in the dark..
I'm using 90m DDS-1 tapes, which give an uncompressed capacity of 2Gb with this drive... but are there any tools to accurately measure both the data rate and the precise capacity of the drive/tapes? I ask this because I have a large amount of (already-compressed) data that I'd like to span across several tapes, and would like to squeeze as much as possible onto each tape :) Any advice would be greatly appreciated :) Kind regards, Gavin.
