On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 at 1:08pm, Gene Heskett wrote

That almost sounds like he would need a dedicated hardware raid to use
as a holdng disk then.  Ouch. And maybe futile unless that same
controller can also handle the tape & library, in which case the
devices could negotiate their own transfers between themselves, at

I've got a 4 disk SATA RAID0 on a 3ware controller for the holding disk.

whatever the limiting speed of the cable might be.  This library is I
take it, a scsi3 wide interface? 320mb/sec rated?

Yep.  In my case, the library is the only thing on the SCSI chain.

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Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University