Re: LTO-3 Drive
On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 16:18 +0200, Andrew Miehs wrote:
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> Hi Shane,
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> Looks like I just found the problem...
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> I had to set the Adaptec controller to U160 instead of U320...
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> Suddenly 2.5MB/s turned into 27MB/s....
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> Alls well that ends well.
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> Boy I love SCSI.
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> Andrew
Now thats more like what I would have expected from a drive of that
nature. I think ive now found our new drives. Thanks for bringing this
to the list.
Shane
> On 12/09/2006, at 4:10 PM, Shane Chrisp wrote:
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> > On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 15:48 +0200, Mariusz Kruk wrote:
> >> On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 02:50:50PM +0200, Andrew Miehs wrote:
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> >>> Have any of you played with an LTO-3 drive? I am trying to work out
> >>> where people get their value of 30-40MB/s streaming...
> >>>
> >>> I have tried with tar, star, etc - and no luck. My maximum so far
> >>> has
> >>> been 11MB/s.
> >>
> >> I ain't sure if this is a topic for isp list (in fact, I'm pretty
> >> sure,
> >> it isn't), but I worked with LTO-2 drive achieving about 18MiB/s
> >> (in a
> >> quite low-end environment), so I would expect LTO-3 to behave better
> >> than that.
> >
> > Why wouldnt discussion on the performance of tape drives be a
> > suitable
> > topic for an ISP list? Im pretty sure there will be others like myself
> > who are currently looking to purchese new hardware and are
> > interested in
> > how these units perform.
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