Steven,

        I haven't at the moment, but I thought to do the same in order to
allocate all the SSA storage for the DB. Which ESS are you using? Shark
or VSS (... I have a VSS) which SCSI adapter? I'm going to attach and
test it next week.

Ta Mauro, STM

> Hi,
>
>  does anybody have any experience of using the ESS attached via SCSI 2
FW to a
> Risc 6000 acting as the ADSM Server.
>
> We currently use native SSA for the disk pool, but are looking to move
the the
> ESS which uses 6GB of cache, and then Raid 5 on enhanced SSA. We are
getting
> comparable write to disk speeds, but the read is a magnitude slower,
which
> impact the copy off to tape.  Has anybody any experience of this, and
if so
> what have they done to improve the throughput.
>
>
> Cheers in advance.
>
> Steven Eyre
> Unix Systems Administrator
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