On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Michael St. Laurent wrote: > True if it were the 2940-U model but it's not. It's a 2940-UW which has a > max tranfer rate of 40MB/s. However, further research indicates that the > *drives* are limited to 20MB/s. <sigh> Oh well. > > I'm using device /dev/st0 to write the backup to. Is that the best choice? As long as your tape drive is the self-rewinding type, and the only tape drive in the system, st0 should be the right device. -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org:2000 To be notified of updates to the web site, send a message to: site-update-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with a message of: subscribe -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list