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Re: HP LTO Drives and TSM

2001-11-09 02:47:13
Subject: Re: HP LTO Drives and TSM
From: Suad Musovich <suad AT CCU1.AUCKLAND.AC DOT NZ>
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 20:44:34 +1300
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
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