Re: LTO-3 Drive

[Andrew Miehs <andrew@2sheds.de>]

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Hi Shane,

Looks like I just found the problem...

I had to set the Adaptec controller to U160 instead of U320...

Suddenly 2.5MB/s turned into 27MB/s....

Alls well that ends well.

Boy I love SCSI.

Andrew

On 12/09/2006, at 4:10 PM, Shane Chrisp wrote:

> 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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