On 2005-09-12 09:34:44 +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote:

> The speed value is not used inside amanda, never mind.
> But it surely shows you have a problem somewhere else in the system,
> or connected the tapedrive to a very slow SCSI card.
>

Yeah.  I'm using a PV132T unit and here's what an amtapetype test
generated (bit different to the FAQ entry for it, but not amazingly 
significantly, I just did it out of curiosity) - I guess that
speed is a bit more reasonable...


define tapetype IBM-LTO2 {
    comment "just produced by tapetype prog (hardware compression off)"
    length 197120 mbytes
    filemark 0 kbytes
    speed 29703 kps
}