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  From: Glen Turner <glen.turner@aarnet.edu.au>
  To  : Steve Sloan <steve@lansol.com.au>
  Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 13:26:22 +0930

Re: DDS2 and TAR

Steve Sloan wrote:
> 
> Therefore it would appear the formatting on the tape is wrong. Is there a
> way to reformat the tape and regain the extra capacity?

There is no soft formatting to mark EOT, it's done physically.
Hitting the physical EOT is a Bad Thing.

So most software needs to be told the tape length.  This can be
done by guess or by coding on the tape housing.  It's possible
your older tapes don't have coding and are forcing a conservative
guess.

The tapes might be differing lengths, or maybe you're using
compression inconsistently.

That about covers the possibilities,
Glen

PS: Don't forget to use the cleaning tape.  DAT is very sensitive
to that.

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