Author: George Sinclair <George.Sinclair AT NOAA DOT GOV>
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 13:53:39 -0500
Hi, I've been curious about the merits of running a library on its own SCSI channel. I've seen a few comments about this in my recent posting: Advice on a specs for a Sun We've been having sporadic S
Author: Howard Martin <howard.martin AT EDS DOT COM>
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 06:18:40 -0500
I'll have a stab at this George. The number of drives you have on a SCSI port should be predicated by data rates you expect to see - assuming you are using drive compression then the data rate to a s
Author: Olaf Zaplinski <o.zaplinski AT BROADNET-MEDIASCAPE DOT DE>
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 00:07:38 +0100
Hi George, I can not tell much but my own Storagetek experience, here we have an L700e. When the jukebox is connected to the same HBA (Adaptec, 160 MB/s capable) as our two tapes on the second SCSI c
Author: George Sinclair <George.Sinclair AT NOAA DOT GOV>
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 18:38:44 -0500
So it sounds like you're saying that performance was degraded when you had all the drives and the picker sharing the same channel but when you put the picker on a separate card/channel the performanc
Author: Olaf Zaplinski <o.zaplinski AT BROADNET-MEDIASCAPE DOT DE>
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 12:26:38 +0100
Hmm, I have not done a performance test when picker and tape drive were on the same bus. I was too much afraid of getting garbage on our tapes because one drive was logged on as 8 bit. [...] Do you t