Re: Question on the Archive TAPEDEV size

Tom Grenier wrote: > > Hi Suj, > I'm not sure if I understand you question correctly, but INFORMIX will > only recognize up to a 2 Gig tape size. We had our onconfig size set to > 4 Gig (what our tapes will handle using compression). When I went > beyond 2 Gig the tape just stopped -- no prompt to enter new tape -- > nothing. Only changing the onconfig parameter worked. > > I have the exact number Informix gave me at the office -- if you want it > let me know (it is a little greater than 2000000K). I know of no > problem stating a larger number than the capacity in the onconfig file > -- but if you go over the 2 Gig mark (in onconfig) and you really feed > more than 2 Gig to a tape you are in trouble. > [Original posting SNIPPED] I do not know what you are talking about. We run ONLINE 5.07 & ODS 7.21 and have always used larger tape arrays (7 4MM DATs @ 4GB each previously now we use an array of 5 20GB DLT drives giving 100GB, 200 w/compression less 20% for RAID redundancy). We set TAPEDEV to 120000000 because much of our data does not compress well and beleive me we use two tape sets to back up the 130GB of data we have not 65sets that would be required if there were a 2GB tape limit. Also for the original poster, Ontape does not detect EOT it just writes until it has written TAPESIZE Kbytes or gets an I/O error. In the former case it closes the file and prompts for a new tape. In the latter case it closes the file and aborts. Art S. Kagel