Remember, variable speed matching supported on some manufactures tape drives 
doesn't necessarily make Justin's suggested performance speeds an absolute.  
But his performance number's are a good base line.
-sj

>>> Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz at lucidpixels.com> 9/25/2006 3:20 PM >>>
If your speeds are < 27MB/s, you get "Shoe Shining" - 27MB/s is the 
minimum you are supposed to run an LTO3 drive at.

Justin.

On Mon, 25 Sep 2006, Hindle, Greg wrote:

> Nb 5.0 mp6 Solaris 9
>
> Ok Maybe this has been said before but with all the talked about show
> shining LTO3 FC drives. Currently I have NDMP backups going to my LTO 3
> drives. Early next year when we buy more LTO3 drives we are changing
> over our non-ndmp backups to go to LTO3 drives as well.  My questions
> are this:
>
> What settings need to be changed and to what to minimize LTO3 show
> shining?
>
> How can I tell if my drives are show shining? Where do I look, what
> commands do I need to run etc.?
>
>
>
>
>
> Greg
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