On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 07:43:11PM -0700, Kelly Lipp wrote: > What we finally wound up doing was using the HP Win2K driver. Still, the > drive reports as TSM Device Type Unknown, but it seems to work just fine. > > Wow, that damn thing is very fast: ~10 GB in 15 minutes. I'll do more > comprehensive testing tomorrow and Monday and report what I learn. I'll do > the same thing on SDLT.
The same thing, I can now say, about the IBM one. They had some performance teething problem, but it seems to work a lot better. Though, under load, you will find a dramatic slowdown when the system can't feed a constant stream of data to the tapes. Cheers, Suad --