Dumping to an exabyte tape drive

[S.Petra Zeidler]

In article <882 at iiasa.UUCP> wnp at iiasa.UUCP (wolf paul) writes:
>What would be a convenient way under UNIX (SunOS) to actually
>determine the capacity of any such tape?

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rstwhatever ibs=256k obs=8k (or multiples of 8k)

as an EXAbyte writes 8*1k simultaneously;
furthermore it speeds up later writing if the tape has been written over once :)
(the EXA does faulty-spots-marking; with us (Europe) 2.1 GByte will always fit,
 2.3 GByte many times)

greetings,
	spz
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