Not getting full tape capacity on Windows machine.

[cibermac]

I have installed legato 7.2 on a windows workstation and have two extabyte mammoth-2 scsi drives attached to it.

The drives are 8mm with 20gig native and a 40gig compressed cababiltiy. The tape drive has hardware compression enables and so does the client but I am only getting 20 gigs on the tape. I even definded the tape capacity on the drives as 40 gig and relabeldd them but no joy.

Any thoughs?

 

[605]

Try to delete the old data with TAPEEXER first. The problem is that all SW products try to read the label first. If a tape has been written already, the drive will adjust to the density found and will switch a preselected density. Consequently you must use a utility which does not look for a label.