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Jim,

That was 8mm which was the input tape (14GB with compression).
The tape I was copying to was a QIC SLR5-4GB tape (rated at 8GB with
compression).
I thought 13.7GB was a bit much for one of those.

...Neil




> As to why you were able to put a 13.7GB data set onto a 8GB tape?   Ya
got
> me.

default compression. our 8mm does 1 tape for approx 15 gig

jim franz




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