[PLUG] Re: Tape Drives and Power Supplies

[Galen Seitz]

Russell Senior <seniorr at aracnet.com> wrote:

>   # mt -f /dev/nst0 datcompression 0
>   # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/nst0 obs=512 count=32768

> I can only assume that the tape drive is interpretting the
> /dev/urandom data as data corruption.  Or maybe the random data is
> causing the hardware compression algorithm to go insane.  I've got no
> idea.  Has anyone seen anything like this before?
> 

I've never seen anything like that with my DDS2 drive.  If you feel like
experimenting, I'd try using a much larger blocksize, say 10K or greater.

galen