From: <cwest_at_email.protected>
Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 16:14:38 +1100 (EST)

Tasso,

Actually it takes less time if you just format the drive. I think its
around 5 minutes for a clean format of Chris's 4x400GB drives.

On Sat, 20 Nov 2004, Tasso Tzioumis wrote:

>And with disks we'd lose even more time! Tapes rewind in 3min. To clear a
>full disk will take more than 1/2 hour?
>
>Vigilance is needed all around...
>
>Tasso
>
>On Sat, 20 Nov 2004, Chris Phillips wrote:
>
>>>
>>>> > A caution. I've struck my first not rewound tapeset and lost almost 30m.
>>>> >
>>>> > So please check tapes before loading.
>>>
>>>
>>> Next year you'll be saying
>>>
>>> "Caution, some disk were not deleted - please test disks are empty before
>>> using them"
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
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Cheers
Craig...

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Craig West
SKA Research Assistant
Astrophysics and Supercomputing
Swinburne University of Technology
Australia
Phone: +61 3 9214 5244
Fax  : +61 3 9214 8797

Received on 2004-11-20 16:14:59