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Re: dt under Linux
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc SCHAEFER)
Mon Oct 18 16:37:54 1999
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
From: Marc SCHAEFER <schaefer@alphanet.ch>
Date: 18 Oct 1999 22:11:01 +0200
Message-ID: <7ufusl$73a$1@vulcan.alphanet.ch>
Robin T.Miller <rmiller@zk3.dec.com> wrote:
> non-replacing pattern, or 'dt' may run for days! For capacity testing, try
> using:
Suggestion: mt -f /dev/nst0 datcompression 0
if it's a DDS drive. This will give you the raw uncompressed capacity.
In that case, /dev/zero is appropriate as test data.
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