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  3. February 2007

Re: How to determine the amount of available space on tape?

It's kind of weird.  Some tapes (same format, make, manufacturer, etc) 
seems to hold more before the next tape is loaded.  Could be quite 
significant.  And I suspect that a manufacturer does a reasonable job of 
having the same length of tape on every cartridge - give or take only a 
small manufacturing variance.  I wonder if the figures quoted on the 
report are data before compression and/or compaction by the device.  And 
some data compresses more.

Rob Berendt

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