Nope, The 3584 is direct SCSI attached.
Richard. -----Original Message----- From: Mike Swinhoe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 5:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: LTO strange behaviour If you are using a SAN DATa Gateway to bridge the gap between your FC and SCSI drives then that might be the bottle neck. So it is worth checking it out. Regards, Michael Swinhoe Storage Management Group Kelly Lipp <lipp@STORSOL To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] .COM> cc: Sent by: Subject: Re: LTO strange behaviour "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] RIST.EDU> 07/02/02 16:03 Please respond to lipp Where is the data coming from? During the testing I did on LTO vs. SDLT I observed similar behavior. I concluded that the RAID5 set containing my disk storage pools was the bottleneck. The paper is available at http://www.storsol.com/pub/LTOvsSDLT.pdf?timeout=200 Kelly J. Lipp Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc. PO Box 51313 Colorado Springs, CO 80949 [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.storsol.com or www.storserver.com (719)531-5926 Fax: (240)539-7175 -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Denzel, Richard van Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 6:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: LTO stange behaviour Hi All, I've come across a strange problem: An RS/6000 F80 with an 3584 (8 * LVD drive) has an average througput op 20 MB/s when using all 8 drives(Split across 3 UltraSCSI-controllers 3-3-2). Normally you would assume a max. throughput of 8 * 15 MB/s = 120 MB/s when making a backup. Anyone for comments and/or solutions? Richard. ------------------------------------------------- Richard van Denzel High Availability & Storage Solutions Senior Technical Consultant Infrastructure Consulting & Integration [EMAIL PROTECTED] Getronics Infrastructure Solutions Wiltonstraat 42 Postbus 1005 3900 BA Veenendaal tel.: 0318 - 567 100 fax: 0318 - 567 633 mobiel: 06 - 212 78 569 Building Futures on <<http://www.getronics.com/>> ___________________________________________________________________________ The information contained in this message is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not read, copy or otherwise use it and do not disclose it to anyone else. Please notify the sender of the delivery error and then delete the message from your system. Any views or opinions expressed in this email are those of the author only. Thank you for your assistance. ___________________________________________________________________________
