Hello,

> > Ok, I have increased tapebufs to 80, I'm not really sure how high to
> > increase it though. I do have plenty of free ram.
> 
> >I've increased it to 1024 on my PowerEdge 2850 with 8GB RAM.

Ok wow that's a huge increase.  I'll keep trying smaller increments until I
get the error and then back off.

> > SRV# ammt -f /dev/nsa0 rewind
> > SRV# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/nsa0 bs=32k count=10000
> > 10000+0 records in
> > 10000+0 records out
> > 327680000 bytes transferred in 122.037586 secs (2685074 bytes/sec)
> 
> Wow, that's bad for an LTO2!

My thoughts exactly ;)

> Just a thought: Were you sitting next to the tape drive while running the
> above test? Did you see it stopping and re-starting over and over...?

Yes it is starting and stopping at frequent intervals. I recompiled amanda
with --with-buffered-dump to try and fix this but it didn't work.

JB