Re: LTO-3 read performance issues

2007-11-08 Thread James Pearson
Kai Makisara wrote: I am using the default st module options and not doing anything other than using 'mt setblk 0'. Is there anything I can do to get a decent, sustained read rate from these tapes? If your system can process the data fast enough and the tape blocks are of the same size, you

Re: LTO-3 read performance issues

2007-11-07 Thread Kai Makisara
On Wed, 7 Nov 2007, James Pearson wrote: > I have two LTO-3 (QUANTUM ULTRIUM 3) drives attached to a dual Adaptec U160 > controller (one per SCSI host) on a Dell PE2850 running a RHEL4 based kernel > (2.6.9 based). > > I'm trying to read (with tar) LTO-3 tapes written on another system (possibly