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DLT IV early-warning marker distance from true end?
I can find reference on other tape types to how far before true
end-of-tape a physical early-warning marker appears, but not for DLT IV. Does anyone know or have a pointer to an official reference? Thanks, - Gordon @ Internet Archive |
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1,650 mm from the BOT hole, coming back on the last logical track
(logical EOT is actually at physical BOT due to serpentine recording and an even number of logical tracks.) It's in the ECMA standard. Hope this helps, Ralf-Peter |
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Thanks, that helps. Looks like a 40GB tape is 557m long, so the
early-warning (EW) is somewhere around 110-120 MB from the end... - Gordon @ IA |
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In article .com,
wrote: Thanks, that helps. Looks like a 40GB tape is 557m long, so the early-warning (EW) is somewhere around 110-120 MB from the end... - Gordon @ IA But the data is recorded in serpentine fashion on many tracks (208 for DLT8000) so isn't the early warning more like 0.6MB from the end? (40000 MB / 557 m ) * 1.65 m / 208 carl -- carl lowenstein marine physical lab u.c. san diego |
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You have to base the calculation on 52 logical tracks (the DLT8000 has
a 4 track head) which gives about 770 MB/logical track. The total tape length is 557 m but only the area between BOT and EOT hole is used for data. The BOT hole is 13.26 m from the beginning and the EOT hole is 6.096 m from the end of the tape, so you have a data area that is nominally 537.6 m long. 770 * 1.65 / 537.6 = 2.36 MB. That's the latest that EW should be asserted - given that the drive supports 16 MB data blocks the firmware will have to set EW much earlier. I checked and there are some vague hints that the FW calculates the EW position based on error rate. I dimly remember that variability in tape length and error rates caused issues when tapes were duplicated. One tape written to EW could not be copied to another if that happened to be shorter or had a higher error rate, so the firmware people based EW on worst case assumptions. Ralf-Peter |
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