Gerhard,
You may want to test earlier versions of 2.6. There have been various
reports of problems with scsi tape in later versions of the 2.6 kernel.
I have problems beginning with 2.6.14 with U320 with LTO-2, others have
reported problems going back to 2.6.12.
Denny
Gerhard Schneider wrote:
It's getting me mad..
It seems that with 2.6 (compared to 2.4) there has something been
changed in the kernel that I'm not aware of so I'm not able to
write/read tapes efficiently anymore..
LSI1030 SCSI controller
Overland tape library
Seagate LTO-1 tape drive
Kernel 2.4.29:
dd if=linux-2.6.16-rc1.tar.gz of=/dev/nst0 bs=64k
776+1 records in
776+1 records out
50918460 bytes transferred in 4.620612 seconds (11019852 bytes/sec)
Kernel 2.6.14rc1:
dd if=linux-2.6.16-rc1.tar.gz of=/dev/nst0 bs=64k
776+1 records in
776+1 records out
50918460 bytes transferred in 20.395567 seconds (2496545 bytes/sec)
Another machine w/
LSI1030 SCSI controller
Megaraid ZCR controller
Overland tape library
HP LTO-3 tape drive
Kernel 2.6.14rc1:
dd if=linux-2.6.16-rc1.tar.gz of=/dev/nst0 bs=64k
776+1 records in
776+1 records out
50918460 bytes transferred in 45.953133 seconds (1108052 bytes/sec)
Either there is an initialization problems with tape drives on 2.6.*
(I don't think so) or there are tunable kernel parameters that
I don't know..
CPU load on 2.6 is minimal, tape is waiting for data..
Any idea? (I can provide you with any amount of data etc..)
GS
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