You'll probably have more trouble getting the data out of the local disks then into the tapes. I have a AIT drive on an 40mb/s SE SCSI and it shoeshines once in a while during backup. I now using SATA disks, and FC2T3 is a lot better on disk thruput. I'm also using XFS, and it helps a LOT. It seems to me that ext3 is quite poor at long sequential disk reads, at least on my setup. On Wed, 2004-05-12 at 18:41, Wolfgang Gill wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: shrike-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > > [mailto:shrike-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael > > St. Laurent > > Sent: Thursday, 13 May 2004 12:04 AM > > To: 'shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx' > > Subject: Tape drive settings > > > > > > Hello to the list! ;-D > > > > I've just installed an Adaptec 29160N SCSI controller card > > (it's a SCSI-160 type card) with a Quantum VS160 DLT tape > > drive. Is there anything special I need to do to ensure > > maximum throughput to the tape drive or will it all just > > autoconfigure that way? > > > > -- > > Michael St. Laurent > > Hartwell Corporation > [snip] > > Just make sure that it's on it's own channel. And nothing else is on that > channel with it. And your ok. If you were to put it on the same channel as > say, the HDD, then the harddrive will slow down to the tape drive transfer > speed and the backup rate will be very slow. But if it's on it's own, then > you will get maximum transfer. > > Wolf > > > ###################################################################### > Attention: > This e-mail message is privileged and confidential. If you are not the > intended recipient please delete the message and notify the sender. > Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author. > > This e-mail has been scanned and cleared by MailMarshal > www.marshalsoftware.com > ###################################################################### > -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
