On Tue, 17 Dec 1996 12:49:00 CST Ron Thielen 773-702-7612 said:
>> Does anyone have experience with the settings of block_size on DLT 2000XT's?
>>
>> We are not getting anywhere near the 'advertised' throughput on our DLT
>drives
>> and I was told that the default 1024 setting is not optimal. Does anyone
>have
>> a recomendation? Where do I see the best performance?
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>>
>> Bob
Ron Thielen responded:
>I did quite a bit of benchmarking last year and found that performance
>was no better, sometimes worse, than an 8mm tape drive unless you use a
>blocksize of 0, variable blocked. Then we were able to achieve transfer
>rates that were significantly closer to "advertised".
>
>Hope this helps.
How does one change the blocksize? I can do it for the non-ADSM device,
but there are no SMIT options for the ADSM DLT device.
Paul Zarnowski Phone: 607/255-4757
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